Another Knowledge Is Possible: Beyond Northern Epistemologies: 03 (Reinventing Social Emancipation)

by Boaventura De Sousa Santos (Editor), Boaventura De Sousa Santos (Editor), Margarita Florez Alonso (Contributor), Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher Tewolde Berhan Gebr (Contributor)

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2008
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This is the third volume of the Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestos series. 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.

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This is the third volume of the Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestos series. 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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 510
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 17 Aug 2008
ISBN 10: 1844672565
ISBN 13: 9781844672561

Media Reviews

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

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

Author Bio

BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS is Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and ILS Distinguished Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been an active participant in the World Social Forum.