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 [...]
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Boaventura de Sousa Santos maps the abyss
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is a professor in the Sociology department University of Coimbra, Portugal. He specialises in issues of law and globalisation, particularly as they relate to the Lusophone South (Mozambique, Brazil, Angola, etc). de Sousa Santos combines his academic life with an active political engagement in World Social Forum.
His essay Beyond Abyssal [...]
