Julia von Sigsfeld

Ancestral Knowledges and Postcoloniality in Contemporary Ecuador

Epistemic Struggles and Situated Cosmopolitanisms

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Produktbeschreibung

In light of an unprecedented constitutional acknowledgement of diverse epistemologies and stipulation making the protection and advancement of so-called 'ancestral knowledges' a duty of the state, this research provides an analysis of the uptake of historically subalternised knowledges by the state during the government of Rafael Correa (2007-2017), as well as of the strive for epistemic justice by peoples and nationalities' organisations in the context of struggles for social change, decolonisation, and self-determination. On the basis of rich empirical material, the analysis traces state discourses and practices and mechanisms to govern 'ancestral knowledges' in the framework of the government's Knowledge Society project and delineates how leaders of peoples and nationalities' organisations struggle for the decolonisation of knowledge. This monograph will be of interest to those concerned with relations between peoples and nationalities and Latin American states, politics of recognition and collective rights, the workings of purportedly post-neoliberal governments and the possibilities and limits for alternatives to development, the struggle of peoples and nationalities' organisations for (epistemic) decolonisation, as well as ongoing (re-)conceptualisations of cosmopolitanisms against restructurations of the coloniality of knowledge and being.

Produktdetails

• Entangled Inequalities: Exploring Global Asymmetries
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 289g
• ISBN-13: 9781032208398
• ISBN-10: 1032208392
• Artikelnr.: 70362800

Autorenporträt

Julia von Sigsfeld is currently research assistant at the GRASSI Ethnological Museum in Leipzig, Germany

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Nation, Power, Knowledge: The Knowledge Society; CHAPTER 2 Development, Nature, Knowledge: A Change of the Productive Matrix?; CHAPTER 3 State, Science, Education: The Knowledge Revolution; CHAPTER 4 Conocimientos Propios and Struggles for Epistemic Justice; CHAPTER 5 Of (Post-)Neoliberal/(Post-)Multicultural Governmentality, Epistemic Struggles, and Situated Cosmopolitanism(s); Final Remarks

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Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Nation, Power, Knowledge: The Knowledge Society
CHAPTER 2 Development, Nature, Knowledge: A Change of the Productive Matrix?
CHAPTER 3 State, Science, Education: The Knowledge Revolution
CHAPTER 4 Conocimientos Propios and Struggles for Epistemic Justice
CHAPTER 5 Of (Post-)Neoliberal/(Post-)Multicultural Governmentality, Epistemic Struggles, and Situated Cosmopolitanism(s)
Final Remarks