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• Preface vii Introduction: Why the Epistemologies of the South? Artisanal Paths for Artisanal Futures
• 1 Part I. Postabyssal Epistemologies
• 1. Pathways toward the Epistemologies of the South
• 19
• 2. Preparing the Ground
• 37
• 3. Authorship, Writing, and Orality
• 53
• 4. What Is Struggle? What Is Experience?
• 63
• 5. Bodies, Knowledges, and Corazonar
• 87 Part II. Postabyssal Methodologies
• 6. Cognitive Decolonization: An Introduction
• 107
• 7. On Nonextractivist Methodologies
• 143
• 8. The Deep Experience of the Senses
• 165
• 9. Demonumentalizing Written and Archival Knowledge
• 185 Part III. Postabyssal Pedagogies
• 10. Gandhi, an Archivist of the Future
• 209
• 11. Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Participatory Action Research, and Epistemologies of the South
• 247
• 12. From University to Pluriversity to Subversity
• 269 Conclusion: Between Fear and Hope
• 293 Notes
• 303 References
• 337 Index 365.
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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.
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• Part One Centrifugal Modernities and Subaltern Wests: Degrees of Separation
• Chapter 1 Nuestra America: Postcolonial Identies and Mestizajes
• Chapter 2 Another Angelus Novus: Beyond the Modern Game of Roots and Options
• Chapter 3 Is There a Non-Occidentalist West?
• Part Two Toward Epistemologies of the South: Against the Waste of Experience
• Chapter 4 Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledges
• Chapter 5 Toward an Epistemology of Blindness: Why the New Forms of "Ceremonial Adequacy" neither Regulate nor Emancipate
• Chapter 6 A Critique of Lazy Reason: Against the Waste of Experience and Toward the Sociology of Absences and the Sociology of Emergences
• Chapter 7 Ecologies of Knowledges
• Chapter 8 Intercultural Translation: Differing and Sharing con Passionalita

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 of market-ridden greed and individualism.
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"Another Knowledge Is Possible" explores the struggles against moral and cultural imperialism and neoliberal globalization that have taken place over the past few decades, and the alternatives that have emerged in countries throughout the developing world from Brazil and Colombia, to India, South Africa and Mozambique. In particular, it looks at the issue of biodiversity, the confrontation between scientific and non-scientific knowledges, and the increasing difficulty experienced by great numbers of people in accessing information and scientific-technological knowledge.
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• 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, Ramon Grosfoguel. 13 Decolonizing the University, Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Conclusion.
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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.
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