Epistemologies of the South : justice against epistemicide / Boaventura De Sousa Santos.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Strong Questions and Weak Answers
The End of Capitalism without End
The End of Colonialism without End
The Paradox of Urgency and Civilizational Change
Very Old or Very New? The Example of the Yasuni Project
The Loss of Critical Nouns
The Ghostly Relation between Theory and Practice
Conclusion
pt. One Centrifugal Modernities and Subaltern Wests: Degrees of Separation
ch. 1 Nuestra America: Postcolonial Identities and Mestizajes
The European American Century and the Rise of Societal Fascism
The Nuestra America Century
The Founding Ideas of Nuestra America
The Baroque Ethos: Prolegomena for an Insurgent Cosmopolitan Politics and Culture
The Limits of Nuestra America
Counterhegemonic Possibilities for the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion: Which Side Are You On, Ariel?
ch. 2 Another Angelus Novus: Beyond the Modern Game of Roots and Options
Introduction
The Past in a Cage
Contents note continued: The Parable of the Angelus Novus
Roots and Options
The End of the Equation
A Future for the Past
Destabilizing Subjectivities
ch. 3 Is There a Non-Occidentalist West?
Philosophy for Sale
Learned Ignorance
The Wager
pt. Two Toward Epistemologies of the South: Against the Waste of Experience
ch. 4 Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledges
The Abyssal Divide between Regulation/​Emancipation and Appropriation/​Violence
Conclusion: Toward Postabyssal Thinking
ch. 5 Toward an Epistemology of Blindness: Why the New Forms of "Ceremonial Adequacy" neither Regulate nor Emancipate
Knowledge-as-Regulation and Knowledge-as-Emancipation
The Representation of Limits
The Determination of Relevance
The Determination of Degrees of Relevance
The Determination of Identification
The Impossibility of Duration
The Determination of Interpretation and Evaluation
Contents note continued: From the Epistemology of Blindness to the Epistemology of Seeing
Toward an Epistemology of Seeing
ch. 6 A Critique of Lazy Reason: Against the Waste of Experience and Toward the Sociology of Absences and the Sociology of Emergences
The Critique of Metonymic Reason
The Critique of Proleptic Reason
ch. 7 Ecologies of Knowledges
The Ecology of Knowledges and the Inexhaustible Diversity of World Experience
Modern Science as Part of an Ecology of Knowledges
External Plurality: The Ecology of Knowledges
Relativizing the Distinction between the Internal and External Plurality of Knowledges: The Case of African Philosophy
The Ecology of Knowledges, Hierarchy, and Pragmatics
Orientations for Prudent Knowledge
ch. 8 Intercultural Translation: Differing and Sharing con Passionalita
On Intercultural Translation as a Living Translation
Contents note continued: Learning from the South through Intercultural Translation
Conditions and Procedures of Translation.

In a world of appalling social inequalities people are becoming more aware of the multiple dimensions of injustice, whether social, political, cultural, sexual, ethnic, religious, historical, or ecological. Rarely acknowledged is another vital dimension: cognitive injustice, the failure to recognize the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. This book shows why cognitive injustice underlies all the other dimensions; global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice.