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Abstract

"The coronavirus pandemic forces us to rethink our contemporaneity. It has brought to the surface dimensions of human fragility that partially contradict the euphoria and human hubris of the fourth industrial revolution (artificial intelligence). It has also aggravated the social inequality and racial discrimination that characterize our societies. The book argues that the virus, rather than an enemy, must be viewed as a pedagogue. It is trying to teach us that the deep causes of the pandemic lie in our dominant mode of production and consumption. The systemic overload of natural resources creates a metabolic rift between society and nature that destabilizes the habitat of wild animals and the vital cycles of natural regeneration whereby pandemics become an increasingly recurrent phenomenon. In trying to take seriously this lesson the book proposes a paradigmatic shift from the current civilizatory model to a new one guided by a more equitable relationship between nature and society and the priority of life, both human and non-human life"--

Pathways toward the epistemologies of the South -- Preparing the ground -- Authorship, writing, and orality -- What is struggle? What is experience? -- Bodies, knowledges, and corazonar -- Cognitive decolonization : an introduction -- On nonextractivist methodologies -- The deep experience of the senses -- Demonumentalizing written and archival knowledge -- Gandhi, an archivist of the future -- Pedagogy of the oppressed, participatory action research, and epistemologies of the South -- From university to pluriversity and subversity

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. Santos s argument unfolds in two inquiries. No matter how internally diverse, Western Modernity provided the knowledge underlying the long cycle of colonialism followed by global capitalism. These historical processes profoundly devalued and marginalized the knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. Today, working against epistemicide is imperative in order to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Such recovery and valorization is the book s second inquiry and is based on four key analytical tools: sociology of absences, sociology of emergences, ecology of knowledges, and intercultural translation. The transformation of the world s epistemological diversity into an empowering instrument against hegemonic globalization points to a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism. It would promote a wide conversation of humankind, celebrating conviviality, solidarity, and life against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism and the destruction of life to which world populations large and small are condemned by the dominant forces of globalization. --

Human rights : a fragile hegemony -- The globalization of political theologies -- The case of Islamic fundamentalism -- The case of Christian fundamentalism -- Human rights in the contact zones with political theologies -- Toward a post-secularist conception of human rights : counter-hegemonic human rights and progressive theologies

In this work, the author focuses on the difficulties and contradictions faced by human rights when faced with movements that demand the presence of religion in the public sphere. He proposes an alliance between the different theologies of liberation existing in different religions and counter-hegemonic conceptions of human rights

Seeking to understand the political significance of the World Social Forum, this work provides a detailed analysis of its leading participants and how they drive the politicisation process. It explores the WSF's significance in transmitting ideas and its potential for becoming a political force