Law and the Epistemologies of the South

Law and the Epistemologies of the South
Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 823
Release: 2023-06-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 100935356X

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Modern state law excludes populations, peoples, and social groups by making them invisible, irrelevant, or dangerous. In this book, Boaventura de Sousa Santos offers a radical critique of the law and develops an innovative paradigm of socio-legal studies which is based on the historical experience of the Global South. He traces the history of modern law as an abyssal law, or a kind of law that is theoretically invisible yet implements profound exclusions in practice. This abyssal line has been the key procedure used by modern modes of domination – capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy – to divide people into two groups, the metropolitan and the colonial, or the fully human and the sub-human. Crucially, de Sousa Santos rejects the decadent pessimism that claims that we are living through 'the end of history'. Instead, this book offers practical, hopeful alternatives to social exclusion and modern legal domination, aiming to make post-abyssal legal utopias a reality.

Law and the Epistemologies of the South

Law and the Epistemologies of the South
Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 823
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107157862

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Offers a radical critique of exclusionary state law and proposes an epistemic, theoretical and political alternative.

Knowledges Born in the Struggle

Knowledges Born in the Struggle
Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2019-10-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000704939

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In a world overwhelmingly unjust and seemingly deprived of alternatives, this book claims that the alternatives can be found among us. These alternatives are, however, discredited or made invisible by the dominant ways of knowing. Rather than alternatives, therefore, we need an alternative way of thinking of alternatives. Such an alternative way of thinking lies in the knowledges born in the struggles against capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy, the three main forms of modern domination. In their immense diversity, such ways of knowing constitute the Global South as an epistemic subject. The epistemologies of the South are guided by the idea that another world is possible and urgently needed; they emerge both in the geographical north and in the geographical south whenever collectives of people fight against modern domination. Learning from and with the epistemic South suggests that the alternative to a general theory is the promotion of an ecology of knowledges based on intercultural and interpolitical translation.

Epistemologies of the South

Epistemologies of the South
Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317260341

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This 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 contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.

Another Knowledge Is Possible

Another Knowledge Is Possible
Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 766
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1789604036

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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.

Epistemologies of the South

Epistemologies of the South
Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher: Paradigm Pub
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781612055459

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This 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 contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world.Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.

Toward a New Legal Common Sense

Toward a New Legal Common Sense
Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 699
Release: 2020-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107157846

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In a period of paradigmatic transition, Toward a New Legal Common Sense aims to devolve to law its emancipatory potential.

The Pluriverse of Human Rights

The Pluriverse of Human Rights
Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021
Genre: Dignity
ISBN: 9781032012223

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"The impasse affecting human rights as a language used to express struggles for dignity reflects the epistemological and political exhaustion which blights the global North. Inspired by struggles from all corners of the world, this book offers a highly conditional response to the prevailing notion of human rights today"--

The End of the Cognitive Empire

The End of the Cognitive Empire
Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2018-07-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 147800200X

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In The End of the Cognitive Empire Boaventura de Sousa Santos further develops his concept of the "epistemologies of the South," in which he outlines a theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical framework for challenging the dominance of Eurocentric thought. As a collection of knowledges born of and anchored in the experiences of marginalized peoples who actively resist capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy, epistemologies of the South represent those forms of knowledge that are generally discredited, erased, and ignored by dominant cultures of the global North. Noting the declining efficacy of established social and political solutions to combat inequality and discrimination, Santos suggests that global justice can only come about through an epistemological shift that guarantees cognitive justice. Such a shift would create new, alternative strategies for political mobilization and activism and give oppressed social groups the means through which to represent the world as their own and in their own terms.

Knowledge, Technology and Law

Knowledge, Technology and Law
Author: Emilie Cloatre
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1136002162

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The relationships between knowledge, technologies, and legal processes are central to the constitution of contemporary societies. As such, they have come to provide the focus for a range of academic projects, across interdisciplinary legal studies and the social sciences. The domains of medical law and ethics, intellectual property law, environmental law and criminal law are just some of those within which the pervasive place and ‘impact’ of technoscience is immediately apparent. At the same time, social scientists investigating the making of technology and expertise - in particular, scholars working within the tradition of science and technology studies - frequently interrogate how regulation and legal processes, and the making of knowledge and technologies, are intermingled in complex ways that come to shape and define each other. This book charts the important interface between studies of law, science and society, as explored from the perspectives of socio-legal studies and the increasingly influential field of science and technology studies. It brings together scholars from both areas to interrogate the joint roles of law and science in the construction and stabilization of socio-technical networks, objects, and standards, as well as their place in the production of contemporary social realities and subjectivities.