Una epistemología del sur: la reinvención del conocimiento y la emancipación social

Una epistemología del sur: la reinvención del conocimiento y la emancipación social - Boaventura de Sousa Santos - Siglo XXI Editores
Publisher name: 
Siglo XXI Editores
Year of publication: 
2009
Pages: 
368
Book size:
14x21cm
Binding: 
Rustic

This book is meant by South epistemology search of knowledge and knowledge validity criteria that give visibility and cognitive practices credibilicen classes, peoples and those who have been historically victimized social groups, exploited and oppressed by colonialism and global capitalism. The South is therefore used here as a metaphor of human suffering systematically caused by colonialism and capitalism. It is a South that also exists in the geographic Global North, the so-called Third World inside the hegemonic countries. In turn, the geographical global South itself contains not only the systematic suffering caused by colonialism and the global capitalism but also local practices of complicity with those. Such practices constitute the imperial South. Southern South epistemology is the anti-imperial South. The first premise of the essays collected here is that no global social ju...read more

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