Epistemologies of the South: South-South, South-North and North-South global learning
International Colloquium
Call for papers
Coimbra – 10, 11, 12 July 2014
A sense of exhaustion looms over Europe. It would appear that the old world is no longer capable of rethinking its past and future.
This colloquium challenges participants to consider that an understanding of the world is much broader than a Western understanding and that therefore the possibilities for social emancipation may be different from those legitimised by the Western canon. This is the essential challenge: we do not need alternatives, but an alternative way of thinking about alternatives.
Can the anti-imperialist South teach anything to the global North? Can the global North teach anything that is not defined by centuries of colonialism and neo-colonialism, imperialism and ethno-racial supremacy? Can both learn in such a way that one day there will be no South or North?The answers to these questions will enable proposals for theory and action to be constructed which effectively confront the logic of global exploitation, oppression and exclusion
The colloquium is structured around the following four main themes, involving the participation of scholars and activists in the global North and South:
- Democratising democracy
- Transformative constitutionalism, interculturality and the reform of the state
- Other economies
- Human rights and other grammars of human dignity
Full version of the call for papers here
To submit a proposal, please follow this link
Contact: alicecoloquio@ces.uc.pt
Paper proposals:
Abstracts: maximum 250 words
Accepted languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Closing date for submission: 28 February 2014
Deadline for notification of acceptance: 31 March 2014
Registration fee:
- 150 euros before 30 April 2014 (250 after 30 April 2014)
- Students: 75 euros before 30 April 2014 (100 euros after 30 April 2014)
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