Epistemologies of the South

Knowing from the South and with the South requires a different political, pedagogical and epistemic orientation, a condition for post-abyssal thinking.

The Global South, a central theme, seeks to recognize and validate the knowledge produced by the oppressed.

by women and men who have suffered and continue to suffer injustice, oppression, domination, and exclusion caused by capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy.

Epistemologies of the South, as a metaphor for exclusion, silencing, and the destruction of peoples and knowledge, seek to give form to the knowledge and experiences of the Global South. The dialogue among all participants in this course aims to develop context-sensitive debates relevant to the intellectual traditions and theoretical, empirical, and cultural realities of the Global South. 

The plural Global South, built from these premises, condenses within itself a diversity of histories and experiences of struggles that are important to know and recognize in solidarity, as forms of affirmation of other ways of being and existing in the world.

Focused on promoting South-South interdisciplinary dialogues, this project seeks to document and interpret resistance to colonialism, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy in our societies. Simultaneously, it aims to study the Global South in all its diversity—a South that metaphorically represents a vast field of economic, social, cultural, and political innovation of increasing diversity, in which dialogues between different forms of knowledge reflect the conditions of pluriversality.

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Work Plan 2023-2025