Table of Contents

Preface  vii
Introduction: Why the Epistemologies of the South? Artisanal Paths for Artisanal Futures  1
Part I. Postabyssal Epistemologies
1. Pathways toward the Epistemologies of the South  19
2. Preparing the Ground  37
3. Authorship, Writing, and Orality  53
4. What Is Struggle? What Is Experience?  63
5. Bodies, Knowledges, and Corazonar  87
Part II. Postabyssal Methodologies
6. Cognitive Decolonization: An Introduction  107
7. On Nonextractivist Methodologies  143
8. The Deep Experience of the Senses  165
9. Demonumentalizing Written and Archival Knowledge  185
Part III. Postabyssal Pedagogies
10. Gandhi, an Archivist of the Future  209
11. Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Participatory Action Research, and Epistemologies of the South  247
12. From University to Pluriversity to Subversity  269
Conclusion: Between Fear and Hope  293
Notes  303
References  337
Index  365

About the Author

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the author and editor of dozens of books, which include If God Were a Human Rights Activist and Epistemologies of the South: Justice against Epistemicide.

Reviews

"De Sousa Santos does a commendable job at providing a structured methodological guide for doing research pertaining to the epistemologies of the South and addresses pedagogical challenges anticipated with the advent of the proposed conceptual shift in the thinking of political change."
*International Journal of Francophone Studies*

“The End of the Cognitive Empire is an outstanding book that takes forward Santos’s previous Epistemologies of the South by providing a more practical guide replete with real-world examples and experiences, many of them firsthand.”
*Journal of Latin American Geography*

“An extraordinary compilation of Sousa Santos’ theoretical and practical contributions, The End of the Cognitive Empire, is an addition to discussions about the epistemic foundations of social struggles across the globe. Divided into three parts, each is a profound reflection on how the knowledges questioning the North are articulated to advance an anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-colonial agenda…. [This book is] off interest to researchers and students in the social sciences, humanities, postcolonial studies, and empirical philosophers of science….”
*Metascience*