
Another Knowledge Is Possible
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- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Opening Up the Canon of Knowledge and Recognition of Difference
- Part I: Multicultural Citizenship and Human Rights
- 1. Human Rights as an Emancipatory Script? Cultural and Political Conditions
- 2. Legal Pluralism, Social Movements and the Post-Colonial State in India: Fractured Sovereignty and Differential Citizenship Rights
- 3. Multiculturalism and Collective Rights
- 4. The Struggles for Land Demarcation by the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil
- 5. The U'wa Community's Battle against the Oil Companies: A Local Struggle Turned Global
- Part II: The World's Local Knowledges
- 6. High-Tech Plundering, Biodiversity, and Cultural Erosion: The Case of Brazil
- 7. Between Cosmology and System: The Heuristics of a Dissenting Imagination
- 8. The State, the Community, and Natural Calamities in Rural Mozambique
- Part III: From Biodiversity to Rival Knowledges
- 9. Can We Protect Traditional Knowledges?
- 10. Biodiversity, Intellectual Property Rights, and Globalization
- 11. Social Movements and Biodiversity on the Pacific Coast of Colombia
- Part IV: The Resistance of the Subaltern: The Case of Medicine
- 12. Marginalized Medical Practice: The Marginalization and Transformation of Indigenous Medicines in South Africa
- 13. "When there are no problems, we are healthy, no bad luck, nothing": Towards an Emancipatory Understanding of Health and Medicine
- Part V: Commentaries
- 14. Globalization, Multiculturalism, and Law
- 15. People-Based Globalization
- Contributors List
- Index
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