Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide

Resource type
Book
Author/contributor
Title
Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide
Abstract
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.
Edition
1 edition
Place
London New York
Publisher
Routledge
Date
October 2, 2014
# of Pages
284
Language
English
ISBN
978-1-61205-545-9
Short Title
Epistemologies of the South
Library Catalogue
Amazon
Citation
Santos, B. de S. (2014). Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide (1 edition). Routledge.