Authors & Affiliations
Dr. Shashi Kant Acharya
Corresponding author Assistant Professor, Government Dungar College, Bikaner, Rajasthan (India)
Suneeta Chura
Research Scholar, Department of English, Maharaja Ganga Singh University, Bikaner, Rajasthan
Abstract
Wokeism became a major ideological phenomenon that had an immense impact on the political, cultural, and academic discourse in the early twenty-first century (Heywood, 2017; Fukuyama, 2018). It was coined on the basis of the African American colloquialism "stay awake," which originally meant social awareness, and with reference specifically to systemic discrimination and racial injustice (Merriam-Webster, 2017). In the long run, though, wokeism has ceased to be emancipatory and established itself as a generalized ideology that aims to control language, morality, and social relations by a set of prescriptive norms of thinking and expression (Hughes, 2019). Wokeism in ideology is ideally parallel to the postmodern theories of influence as well as left-liberal thought that prioritizes identity, subjectivity and power relations over the common or civilizational values (Lyotard, 1984; Butler, 1990). It often views the society in terms of binary oppositions, oppressor and oppressed, and uses such notions as identity politics, intersectionality, and social justice advocacy (Crenshaw, 1989).
Keywords
Wokeism, ideological phenomenon, political, cultural, and academic discourse
How to Cite
APADr. Shashi Kant Acharya, Suneeta Chura (2026). Diabolic Effects of Wokeism and Indian Knowledge System As a Counter-Narrative. Patrika Aranyak, 2(1), 103–107. https://patrikaa.com/research/article.php?id=10
MLADr. Shashi Kant Acharya, Suneeta Chura. “Diabolic Effects of Wokeism and Indian Knowledge System As a Counter-Narrative.” Patrika Aranyak, vol. 2, no. 1, 2026, pp. 103–107. https://patrikaa.com/research/article.php?id=10.