Epistemologies of the South Justice Against Epistemicide

Name: Epistemologies of the South Justice Against Epistemicide
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ISBN: 9781612055459

ISBN-10: 1612055451

ISBN-13: 9781612055459

Edition: 2014

Authors: Boaventura De Sousa Santos

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This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice.Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world.Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic…

Book details

Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 10/13/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.06" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Among his many books are The Rise of the Global Left: The World Social Forum and Beyond (2006) and Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality (2005).