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Another Knowledge Is Possible

Beyond Northern Epistemologies

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Editor)

With contributions from Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, With contributions from Margarita Flórez Alonso, With contributions from Luis Carlos Arenas, With contributions from João Paulo Borges Coelho, With contributions from Arturo Escobar, With contributions from Yash Ghai, With contributions from Maria Paula Meneses, With contributions from João Arriscado Nunes, With contributions from Lino João de Oliveira Neves, With contributions from Mauricio Pardo, With contributions from Shalini Randeria, With contributions from Laymert Garcia dos Santos, With contributions from Vandana Shiva, With contributions from Carlos Frederico Marés de Souza Filho, With contributions from Shiv Visvanathan, With contributions from Thokozani Xaba

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Exploring the struggles against moral and cultural imperialism.

This is the third volume of the series Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes. Another Knowledge Is Possible explores the struggles against moral and cultural imperialism and neoliberal globalization that have taken place over the past few decades, and the alternatives that have emerged in countries throughout the developing world from Brazil and Colombia, to India, South Africa and Mozambique. In particular it looks at the issue of biodiversity, the confrontation between scientific and non-scientific knowledges, and the increasing difficulty experienced by great numbers of people in accessing information and scientific-technological knowledge.

Book Details

  • Paperback
  • August 2008
  • ISBN 978-1-84467-256-1
  • 6.2 × 9.3 in / 447 pages
  • Territory Rights: USA and Dependencies and the Philippines.

Endorsements & Reviews

“In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher declared 'There is no alternative.' At the beginning of the 21st century the World Social Forum replied, 'Another World is Possible.' The project, Reinventing Social Emancipation, is a passionate and wide-ranging effort at enriching our vision of that other world.” — Erik Olin Wright

“At last, someone is putting concrete analysis on 'counter-hegemonic globalization from the bottom up.' Boaventura de Sousa Santos has assembled social scientists from Latin America, Africa, and Asia to describe another kind of democracy, full of lessons for the benighted countries of the North, where it should be mandatory reading for serious people.” — Immanuel Wallerstein

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