End of the Cognitive Empire

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.

• Preface  viiIntroduction: Why the Epistemologies of the South? Artisanal Paths for Artisanal Futures  1Part I. Postabyssal Epistemologies1. Pathways toward the Epistemologies of the South  192. Preparing the Ground  373. Authorship, Writing, and Orality  534. What Is Struggle? What Is Experience?  635. Bodies, Knowledges, and Corazonar  87Part II. Postabyssal Methodologies6. Cognitive Decolonization: An Introduction  1077. On Nonextractivist Methodologies  1438. The Deep Experience of the Senses  1659. Demonumentalizing Written and Archival Knowledge  185Part III. Postabyssal Pedagogies10. Gandhi, an Archivist of the Future  20911. Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Participatory Action Research, and Epistemologies of the South  24712. From University to Pluriversity to Subversity  269Conclusion: Between Fear and Hope  293Notes  303References  337Index  365

"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) “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) “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)