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Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide by Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Paperback, 2014)

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This book explores the concept of knowledge from diverse cultural perspectives, particularly focusing on the Global South. It critiques dominant Western epistemologies and advocates for a more inclusive understanding of knowledge that values local experiences and histories. The author argues for the importance of alternative epistemologies, presenting a framework that emphasizes the interplay between knowledge and social justice. Through various case studies and theoretical discussions, the work seeks to illuminate how different forms of knowledge can challenge existing power dynamics and contribute to a more equitable world. .

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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.