Knowledges, Sustainability and Cognitive Justice

Year
1
Academic year
2018-2019
Code
03017630
Subject Area
Anthropology
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Other Languages of Instruction
English
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
10.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
3rd Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

It also incorporates the presentation and discussion of several disciplinary references. The teaching process combines the theoretical, oral exposition by the lecturer, followed by a group discussion, with the students, along the main questions identified in the references previously proposed to the students.

The design of this seminar also entails seminars where students present themes chosen by then, aiming to broaden topics that integrate this curricular unit.    

Learning Outcomes

This seminar builds on two fundamental moments. Firstly to question the shades and political uses of the ideas of 'governance' and 'knowledge society', both in the global North and in the global South, through a trans-scalar approach. In a second moment, giving priority to the study of the production of knowledge(s) as a field of analysis that allows the detection of the production and reproduction of situations of inequality, regulated through the epistemic hierarchy imposed through the colonial system, opens up a field for the more in depth study of the meanings of sustainability and cognitive justice, from the (ac)knowledge(ment) of the epistemological diversity in the world. In this context, it pursues the analysis of the conflictual plurality of knowledges that inform the social practices and the way under which this is reflected in modern science in general, and in the social sciences in particular.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction to ‘Governance and Knowledge’ in North-South relationships;

2. A critical analysis of the meaning of justice;

3. Cosmopolitan justice;

4. Universality vs pluriversality of knowledges;

5. Knowledges of the world and their conflicts;

6. Science policies and the crisis of social sciences;

7. Knowledges and sustainability;

8. Approaches towards the construction of a society of cognitive justice.

Head Lecturer(s)

Stefania Barca

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 25.0%
Synthesis work: 75.0%

Bibliography

ABRAHAMSEN, Rita (2000). Disciplining democracy. London : Zed Books. [BP 327 ABR]

CASANOVA, Pablo González (2006). “Colonialismo Interno (una redefinición)”, in Boron, A.; Amadeo, J.; González, S. (orgs.), La teoría marxista hoy. Buenos Aires: CLACSO.

CREWE, Emma ; HARRISON, Elizabeth (1998). Whose development? : an ethnography of aid. London : Zed Books. NADER, Laura (1996). Naked science : anthropological inquiry into boundaries, power, and knowledge.. New York : Routledge. [BP 001 NAK]

OXHORN, Philip; Tulchin, Joseph; Selee (2004). Decentralziation, democratic governance, and civil society in comparative perspective : Africa, Asia and Latin America. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press. [BP 32 DEC]

SANTOS, Boaventura (org.) (20003). Conhecimento prudente para uma vida decente.. Porto : Edições Afrontamento. [BP 165 CON]

SANTOS, Boaventura; Meneses, Maria Paula (org) (2009). Epistemologias do Sul. Coimbra : Almedina. [ BP 165 EPI c.5]