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| Title | : | Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.25 (682 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1612055451 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 284 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
Prize of the Law and Society Association, 2011. He is director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and has written and published widely on the issues of globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, social movements, and the World Social Forum. Among his many books in English are The Rise of the Global Left: The World Social Forum and Beyond (Zed Books 2006) and Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality
While it is impossible to capture the rich texture of Santos’s sweeping theoretical analysis of knowledge and power in this review, I hope to give Sociology readers a flavour of its importance for both the critical sociology of knowledge and counter-capitalist struggles around the world."Sarah Amsler, University of Lincoln, UK, Sociology. "This book, written for potential allies of ‘rearguard intellectuals’ in the anti-imperial South, is two things: a post-neoliberal sociology of knowledge, and a manifesto for intellectual, emotional and political reb
Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. 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.. 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. Santos argues that Western domination h
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