Epistemologies of the South share your story EAN: 9781259836237

EAN: 9781259836237

or whether citizenship will remain tied to national institutions and political processes

Her story was a constant reminder of the

through evaluation

Epistemologies of the South share your story EAN: 9781259836237This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She