The end of the cognitive empire : the coming of age of epistemologies of the South / Boaventura de Sousa Santos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Social epistemology.

Social justice--Developing countries.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"In The End of the Cognitive Empire Boaventura de Sousa Santos further develops his concept of the "epistemologies of the South," in which he outlines a theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical framework for challenging the dominance of Eurocentric thought. As a collection of knowledges born of and anchored in the experiences of marginalized peoples who actively resist capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy, epistemologies of the South represent those forms of knowledge that are generally discredited, erased, and ignored by dominant cultures of the global North. Noting the declining efficacy of established social and political solutions to combat inequality and discrimination, Santos suggests that global justice can only come about through an epistemological shift that guarantees cognitive justice. Such a shift would create new, alternative strategies for political mobilization and activism and give oppressed social groups the means through which to represent the world as their own and in their own terms."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Pathways toward the epistemologies of the South

Preparing the ground

Authorship, writing, and orality

What is struggle? What is experience?

Bodies, knowledges, and corazonar

Cognitive decolonization : an introduction

On nonextractivist methodologies

The deep experience of the senses

Demonumentalizing written and archival knowledge

Gandhi, an archivist of the future

Pedagogy of the oppressed, participatory action research, and epistemologies of the South

From university to pluriversity and subversity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478002000 (electronic book)

147800200X

OCLC:

1061067225