Another Knowledge Is Possible
Beyond Northern Epistemologies
Published on 5. May 2020
510 pages
978-1-78960-403-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is the third volume of the series Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes. Another Knowledge Is Possible explores the struggles against moral and cultural imperialism and neoliberal globalization that have taken place over the past few decades, and the alternatives that have emerged in countries throughout the developing world from Brazil and Colombia, to India, South Africa and Mozambique. In particular it looks at the issue of biodiversity, the confrontation between scientific and non-scientific knowledges, and the increasing difficulty experienced by great numbers of people in accessing information and scientific-technological knowledge.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78960-403-0 (9781789604030)
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Persons
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and ILS Distinguished Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been an active participant in the World Social Forum. His books include Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization and Emancipation.
Content
- 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
