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Más allá de la imaginación política y de la teoría crítica eurocéntricas

Authors :
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Source :
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, Vol 114, Pp 75-116 (2017)
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, 2017.

Abstract

Maintaining a proper distance with respect to Eurocentric tradition is the equivalent of being aware of the fact that the diversity of human experience in the world is inexhaustible, and thus no single general theory can explain it. Sustaining such a distance allows for what I call the twofold transgressive sociology of absences and the sociology of emergences. Such a transgressive sociology is, in fact, an epistemological step which consists of contrasting the epistemologies of the South with the dominant epistemologies of the global North.

Details

Language :
English, Spanish; Castilian, Portuguese
ISSN :
02541106 and 21827435
Volume :
114
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.27a31a82826f47509f63bc4eff4e0b75
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.4000/rccs.6784