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The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South by [Boaventura de Sousa Santos]

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In The End of the Cognitive Empire Boaventura de Sousa Santos further develops his concept of the "epistemologies of the South," in which he outlines a theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical framework for challenging the dominance of Eurocentric thought. As a collection of knowledges born of and anchored in the experiences of marginalized peoples who actively resist capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy, epistemologies of the South represent those forms of knowledge that are generally discredited, erased, and ignored by dominant cultures of the global North. Noting the declining efficacy of established social and political solutions to combat inequality and discrimination, Santos suggests that global justice can only come about through an epistemological shift that guarantees cognitive justice. Such a shift would create new, alternative strategies for political mobilization and activism and give oppressed social groups the means through which to represent the world as their own and in their own terms.

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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.

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"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."

-- Dieunedort Wandji ― International Journal of Francophone Studies Published On: 2019-07-01

“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.”

-- Sam Halvorsen ― Journal of Latin American Geography Published On: 2020-03-01

“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….”

-- Leandro Rodriguez-Medina ― Metascience Published On: 2020-07-30 --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Duke University Press Books (July 16, 2018)
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Language ‏ : ‎ English
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BUYER BEWARE. The binding of this book is cheap and defective. I bought the same book twice and both fell apart in my hands they day they arrived. Do not buy from this publisher.
Just download the pdf from gen lib for free. The author’s contributions are extraordinary. .

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Well written and clarity of ideas and argument.

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2019

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Contents speak to the title.

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Yasmin Alam

See Through the White Supremacist Fog of European Lies and Omissions will be a Real Enlightenment!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2021

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As an undergraduate at Hull University (U.K) in the mid 1980's my philosophy dissertation enraged the external examiners so much that they determined I should be awarded a failure. Such was the emotional overreaction to my small attempt to demonstrate that the various 'fathers' of Western philosophical schools, were very much WHITE MEN entirely of their times. In ignoring the atrocity that is slavery and the widespread terror engulfing half the population across Europe (women being burnt as witches) exposed to me, how wrong-headed they were in being occupied with pontificating on asserting their narrow concerns as the Holy Grail of epistemological truths that were universal.
I'd merely presented a case for 'anti-colonial and feminist epistemology', insights that I had developed as a lone undergraduate, a woman of colour who was utterly dissatisfied with the readings I was supposed to swallow and say nothing substantive about, in terms of a critique.
And this is the great gift of this book by the Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. The title suggests a journey towards the recognition of truths long suppressed by the combination of military conquest and cultural suppression by European elites and their lackeys and collaborators inside and outside of the Western Empire's academic institutions.
And indeed, for everyone seeking for alternatives to the nihilism of postmodernist thinking, the technocratic positivism that has led to the unleashing of ecological monstrosities in the name of 'progress', and notions around 'the end of times', a rich treasure house of ways of conceptualising the world awaits discovery. If you want to reach outside of the limits of the cultural and intellectual culture de sac that is Western formulations about the nature of the world and our relationship to it and to ourselves, study this book.

Sardis Siren

Deconstructing Western Cognition Imperialism

Reviewed in Canada on March 29, 2019

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This is a must read for Educators around the world as the masters tools are being used to deconstruct the world the master has used to keep the communities across the world shackled.....