Epistemologies of the South – Boaventura Sousa Santos and Maria Paula Meneses

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From the Portuguese social theorist Boaventura Sousa Santos and Maria Paula Meneses comes Epistemologies of the South. This book begins with a critique of dominant epistemologies which are seen to decontextualise knowledge from its cultural and political contexts. As an alternative, it proposes an ‘epistemology of the South’ which consists of interventions that engage with ‘ecologies of knowledge’. It is available (in Portuguese) here.