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Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Why Epistemologies of the south

Boaventura de Sousa Santos Lecture at Leverhulme, London 15 March 2012.

Audio file in English.

Topic: Why Epistemologies of the south

Boaventura de Sousa Santos takes as his starting point the idea that social experience throughout the world is much wider and more varied than western scientific or philosophical tradition understands or considers important. Rejecting the abyssal lines defined by western modernity, he proposes an exploration of the alternatives existing within the range of concrete possibilities.

 

Boaventura de Sousa Santos Leverhulme_Lecture_1 Epistemologies of the south (15-03-2012)

 

 
 

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