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

"The result of many years of work, this book was written towards the possibility of what I would call 'una epistemologia solidaria, ' an epistemology in solidarity with those who want to change the world as it is hegemonically known. Boaventura de Sousa Santos's political analysis in The End of the Cognitive Empire offers an alternative that steers political analysis away from usual alternatives."--Marisol de la Cadena