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Title

Knowledges born in the struggle : constructing the epistemologies of the Global South / edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Maria Paula Meneses.

Publication

• London, United Kingdom : Routledge ; Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

• Santos, Boaventura de Sousa
• Meneses, Maria Paula

Description

xliii, 253 pages : illustrations (black and white); 23 cm.

Summary

In a world overwhelmingly unjust and seemingly deprived of alternatives, this book claims that the alternatives can be found among us. These alternatives are, however, discredited or made invisible by the dominant ways of knowing. Rather than alternatives, therefore, we need an alternative way of thinking of alternatives. Such an alternative way of thinking lies in the knowledges born in the struggles against capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy, the three main forms of modern domination. In their immense diversity, such ways of knowing constitute the Global South as an epistemic subject. The epistemologies of the South are guided by the idea that another world is possible and urgently needed; they emerge both in the geographical north and in the geographical south whenever collectives of people fight against modern domination. Learning from and with the epistemic South suggests that the alternative to a general theory is the promotion of an ecology of knowledges based on intercultural and interpolitical translation.

Series Statement

Epistemologies of the south

Uniform Title

Epistemologies of the south.

Subject

• Knowledge, Theory of

Contents

Introduction -- PART I: Unveiling the Eurocentric Roots of Modern Knowledge. -- 1 Global Social Thought via the Haitian Revolution, / Gurminder K. Bhambra. 2 Making the Nation Habitable, / Shahid Amin. -- PART II: Other Territories, Other Epistemologies: Amplifying the Knowledges of the South. 3 Thinking-Feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South, / Arturo Escobar. 4 On Finding the Cinerarium for Uncremated Ubuntu: On the Street Wisdom of Philosophy, / Mogobe Ramose. 5 Problematic People and Epistemic Decolonization: Toward the Postcolonial in Africana Political Thought, / Lewis R. Gordon. 6 Chacha-warmi: Another Form of Gender Equality, from the Perspective of Aymara Culture, / Yanett Medrano Valdez. -- PART III: The Arts and the Senses in the Epistemologies of the South. 7 Toward an Aesthetics of the Epistemologies of the South: Manifesto in Twenty-Two Theses, / Boaventura de Sousa Santos. 8 What's in a Name? Utopia--Sociology--Poetry, / Maria Irene Ramalho. 9 Food as a Metaphor for Cultural Hierarchies, / Gopal Guru. 10 Tastes, Aromas, and Knowledges: Challenges to a Dominant Epistemology, / Maria Paula Meneses. -- PART IV: Decolonizing Knowledge: The Multiple Challenges. 11 The Recolonization of the Indian Mind, / Peter Ronald deSouza. 12 Epistemic Extractivism: A Dialogue with Alberto Acosta, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, / Ramón Grosfoguel. 13 y Decolonizing the University, / Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 20-5331

ISBN

• 9780367362119
• 0367362112
• 9780367362072
• 0367362074
• 9781000704938 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000703399 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000704167 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429344596 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1129596926

Title

Knowledges born in the struggle : constructing the epistemologies of the Global South / edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Maria Paula Meneses.

Publisher

London, United Kingdom : Routledge ; Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Epistemologies of the south

Epistemologies of the south.

Added Author

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, editor.

Meneses, Maria Paula, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-5331