Law And The Epistemologies Of The South
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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.
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.
Author | : Boaventura de Sousa Santos |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2019-10-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000704939 |
Download Knowledges Born in the Struggle Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
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.
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.
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.
Author | : Boaventura de Sousa Santos |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 699 |
Release | : 2020-10 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107157846 |
Download Toward a New Legal Common Sense Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In a period of paradigmatic transition, Toward a New Legal Common Sense aims to devolve to law its emancipatory potential.
Author | : Boaventura de Sousa Santos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Dignity |
ISBN | : 9781032012223 |
Download The Pluriverse of Human Rights Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"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"--
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.
Author | : Boaventura de Sousa Santos |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2015-04-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0804795037 |
Download If God Were a Human Rights Activist Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral indignation and the political will needed both to combat them effectively and to create a more just and fair society. If God Were a Human Rights Activist aims to strengthen the organization and the determination of all those who have not given up the struggle for a better society, and specifically those that have done so under the banner of human rights. It discusses the challenges to human rights arising from religious movements and political theologies that claim the presence of religion in the public sphere. Increasingly globalized, such movements and the theologies sustaining them promote discourses of human dignity that rival, and often contradict, the one underlying secular human rights. Conventional or hegemonic human rights thinking lacks the necessary theoretical and analytical tools to position itself in relation to such movements and theologies; even worse, it does not understand the importance of doing so. It applies the same abstract recipe across the board, hoping that thereby the nature of alternative discourses and ideologies will be reduced to local specificities with no impact on the universal canon of human rights. As this strategy proves increasingly lacking, this book aims to demonstrate that only a counter-hegemonic conception of human rights can adequately face such challenges.