Preface  vii
Introduction: Why the Epistemologies of the South? Artisanal Paths for Artisanal Futures  1
Part I. Postabyssal Epistemologies
1. Pathways toward the Epistemologies of the South  19
2. Preparing the Ground  37
3. Authorship, Writing, and Orality  53
4. What Is Struggle? What Is Experience?  63
5. Bodies, Knowledges, and Corazonar  87
Part II. Postabyssal Methodologies
6. Cognitive Decolonization: An Introduction  107
7. On Nonextractivist Methodologies  143
8. The Deep Experience of the Senses  165
9. Demonumentalizing Written and Archival Knowledge  185
Part III. Postabyssal Pedagogies
10. Gandhi, an Archivist of the Future  209
11. Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Participatory Action Research, and Epistemologies of the South  247
12. From University to Pluriversity to Subversity  269
Conclusion: Between Fear and Hope  293
Notes  303
References  337
Index  365

“Boaventura de Sousa Santos is one of the most brilliant and original thinkers on theories of knowledge. This latest book offers us a further development of what he has been arguing for some time. He leaves the reader (at least, me) breathless in the range and relevance of the issues he discusses and actions he proposes. One does not have to agree with everything to be dazzled, and to rethink many things we assume. A must-read for whoever wants to change the world.” — Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University

“The result of many years of work, this book was written toward the possibility of what I would call ‘una epistemología solidaria,’ an epistemology in solidarity with those who want to change the world as it is hegemonically known. Boaventura de Sousa Santos’s political analysis in The End of the Cognitive Empire offers an alternative that steers political analysis away from the usual alternatives.” — Marisol de la Cadena, author of, Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

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