Knowledges Born in the Struggle
Knowledges Born in the Struggle In a world overwhelmingly unjust and seemingly deprived of alternatives, this book claims that the alternatives can be found among us. Rather than alternatives,…
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Knowledges Born in the Struggle
In a world overwhelmingly unjust and seemingly deprived of alternatives, this book claims that the alternatives can be found among us. Rather than alternatives, therefore, we need an alternative way of thinking of alternatives. These alternatives are, however, discredited or made invisible by the dominant ways of knowing.
In their immense diversity, such ways of knowing constitute the Global South as an epistemic subject. 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. 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