Knowledges, Sustainability, and Cognitive Justice

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Learning Outcomes

This course will seek not only to deconstruct the colonial narrative written by the colonizer but also to replace it with alternative narratives and solutions, in search of an emancipatory knowledge. A full citizenship can only be constructed with cognitive justices, the recognition of the presence of different ways of understanding, acknowledging and explaining the world. All knowledges deserve and demand a mutual respect, and must be a continuous presence in our everyday work life, subject to an ongoing evaluation process and construct a permanent relation with other knowledges. The course will favor a broad analysis of relationships of rupture, continuity and knowledge contamination, from a multidisciplinary and situational perspective.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction to ‘Governance and Knowledge' in North-South relationships; 2. A critical analysis of the sense of justice; 3. Cosmopolitan justice; 4. Universality vs. pluriversality of knowledges; 5. Knowledges of the world and their conflicts; 6. Scientific policies and the crisis of social sciences; 7. Knowledges and sustainability; 8. Perspectives for the construction of a cognitive justice society

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Paula Guttierrez Meneses

Bibliography

ABRAHAMSEN, Rita - Disciplining democracy : development discourse and good governance in Africa. London : Zed Books, 2000. [BP 327 ABR]

CONHECIMENTO prudente para uma vida decente : um discurso sobre as ciências revisitado. Organizador Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Porto : Edições Afrontamento, 2003. [BP 165 CON]

CREWE, Emma ; HARRISON, Elizabeth - Whose development? : an ethnography of aid. London : Zed Books, 1998.

DECENTRALIZATION, democratic governance, and civil society in comparative perspective : Africa, Asia and Latin America. Edited by Philip Oxhorn, Joseph S. Tulchin, and Andrew D. Selee. Washington : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. [BP 32 DEC]

MUDIMBE, V. Y. - The invention of Africa : gnosis, philosophy, and the order of knowledge. Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; London : James Currey, 1988.

NAKED science : anthropological inquiry into boundaries, power, and knowledge. Edited by Laura Nader. New York : Routledge, 1996. [BP 001 NAK]

NATURE and empire : science and the colonial enterprise. Edited by Roy MacLeod. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

POLITICAL (THE) economy of hunger : selected essays. Edited by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen and Athar Hussain. Oxford : Clarendon Press,1995. [BP 338.43 DRE]

SCIENCE and other culture : issues in philosophy of science and technology. New York : Routledge, 2003. [BP 001 SCI]

SEMEAR outras soluções : caminhos da biodiversidade e dos conhecimentos rivais. organizador Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Porto : Edições Afrontamento, 2004. [BP 316.334.3 SEM]