Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide

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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 of market-ridden greed and individualism. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 9 Manifesto for Good Living......Page 15 Minifesto for Intellectual-Activists......Page 16 Introduction Creating a Distance in Relation to Western-centric Political Imagination and Critical Theory......Page 32 Strong Questions and Weak Answers......Page 33 The End of Capitalism without End......Page 37 The End of Colonialism without End......Page 39 The Paradox of Urgency and Civilizational Change......Page 40 Very Old or Very New? The Example of the Yasuní Project......Page 43 The Loss of Critical Nouns......Page 46 The Ghostly Relation between Theory and Practice......Page 47 Conclusion......Page 56 Part One Centrifugal Modernities and Subaltern Wests: Degrees of Separation......Page 60 The European American Century and the Rise of Societal Fascism......Page 61 The Founding Ideas of Nuestra America......Page 64 The Baroque Ethos: Prolegomena for an Insurgent Cosmopolitan Politics and Culture......Page 69 The Limits of Nuestra America......Page 77 Counterhegemonic Possibilities for the Twenty-First Century......Page 79 Conclusion: Which Side Are You On, Ariel?......Page 81 Introduction......Page 83 The Past in a Cage......Page 86 The Parable of the Angelus Novus......Page 87 Roots and Options......Page 89 The End of the Equation......Page 94 A Future for the Past......Page 100 Destabilizing Subjectivities......Page 109 Chapter 3 Is There a Non-Occidentalist West?......Page 112 Philosophy for Sale......Page 116 Learned Ignorance......Page 122 The Wager......Page 124 Conclusion......Page 127 Part Two Toward Epistemologies of the South: Against the Waste of Experience......Page 130 Chapter 4 Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledges......Page 131 The Abyssal Divide between Regulation/Emancipation and Appropriation/Violence......Page 137 Conclusion: Toward Postabyssal Thinking......Page 146 Introduction......Page 149 Knowledge-as-Regulation and Knowledge-as-Emancipation......Page 151 The Representation of Limits......Page 153 The Determination of Relevance......Page 157 The Determination of Degrees of Relevance......Page 159 The Impossibility of Duration......Page 161 The Determination of Interpretation and Evaluation......Page 165 From the Epistemology of Blindness to the Epistemology of Seeing......Page 167 Toward an Epistemology of Seeing......Page 169 Conclusion......Page 176 Introduction......Page 177 The Critique of Metonymic Reason......Page 180 The Critique of Proleptic Reason......Page 194 Conclusion......Page 199 Chapter 7 Ecologies of Knowledges......Page 201 The Ecology of Knowledges and the Inexhaustible Diversity of World Experience......Page 204 Modern Science as Part of an Ecology of Knowledges......Page 206 External Plurality: The Ecology of Knowledges......Page 212 Relativizing the Distinction between the Internal and External Plurality of Knowledges: The Case of African Philosophy......Page 215 The Ecology of Knowledges, Hierarchy, and Pragmatics......Page 218 Orientations for Prudent Knowledge......Page 219 Chapter 8 Intercultural Translation: Differing and Sharing con Passionalità......Page 225 On Intercultural Translation as a Living Translation......Page 228 Learning from the South through Intercultural Translation......Page 235 Conditions and Procedures of Translation......Page 240 Conclusion......Page 249 References......Page 254 Index......Page 274 About the Author......Page 285