Epistemologies of the South: justice against epistemicide
Santos, Boaventura De Sousa
Epistemologies of the South: justice against epistemicide - London: Routledge, 2016. - xi, 240p.: pbk.: 22cm - Epistemologies of the South .
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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 outline a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.
https://www.routledge.com/Epistemologies-of-the-South-Justice-Against-Epistemicide/Santos/p/book/9781612055459
9781612055459
Knowledge
Social Epistemology
Social Justice
Developing Countries
Sociology of Knowledge Society
Postcolonial Identities
303.372 SAN
Epistemologies of the South: justice against epistemicide - London: Routledge, 2016. - xi, 240p.: pbk.: 22cm - Epistemologies of the South .
Include index & references.
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 outline a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.
https://www.routledge.com/Epistemologies-of-the-South-Justice-Against-Epistemicide/Santos/p/book/9781612055459
9781612055459
Knowledge
Social Epistemology
Social Justice
Developing Countries
Sociology of Knowledge Society
Postcolonial Identities
303.372 SAN
