Another Knowledge Is Possible: Beyond Northern Epistemologies (Reinventing Social Emancipation Toward New Manifestos)

This is the third volume of the series__Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes__.__Another Knowledge Is Possible__explores the struggles against moral and cultural imperialism and neoliberal globalization that have taken place over the past few decades, and the alternatives that have emerged in countries throughout the developing world from Brazil and Colombia, to India, South Africa and Mozambique. In particular it looks at the issue of biodiversity, the confrontation between scientific and non-scientific knowledges, and the increasing difficulty experienced by great numbers of people in accessing information and scientific-technological knowledge. Contents......Page 3 Preface by Boaventura de Sousa Santos......Page 5 INTRODUCTION: Opening Up the Canon of Knowledge and Recognition of Difference by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, ]oao Arriscado Nunes, and Maria Paula Meneses......Page 17 Part I: MULTICULTURAL CITIZENSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 63 1. Human Rights as an Emancipatory Script? Cultural and Political Conditions by Boaventura de Sousa Santos......Page 65 2. Legal Pluralism, Social Movements and the Post-Colonial State in India: Fractured Sovereignty and Differential Citizenship Rights by Shalini Randeria......Page 103 3. Multiculturalism and Collective Rights by Carlos Frederico Mares de Souza Filho......Page 137 4. The Struggles for Land Demarcationby the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil by Lino Joao de Oliveira Neves......Page 167 5. The U'wa Community's Battle against the Oil Companies: A Local Struggle Turned Global by Luis Carlos Arenas......Page 182 Part II: THE WORLD'S LOCAL KNOWLEDGES......Page 211 6. High-Tech Plundering, Biodiversity, and Cultural Erosion: The Case of Brazil by Laymert Garcia dos Santos......Page 213 7. Between Cosmology and System: The Heuristics of a Dissenting Imagination by Shiv Visvanathan......Page 244 8. The State, the Community, and Natural Calamities in Rural Mozambique by ]oao Paulo Borges Coelho......Page 281 Part III: FROM BIODIVERSITY TO RIVAL KNOWLEDGES......Page 309 9. Can We Protect Traditional Knowledges? by Margarita Florez Alonso......Page 311 10. Biodiversity, Intellectual Property Rights, and Globalization by Vandana Shiva......Page 334 11. Social Movements and Biodiversity on the Pacific Coast of Colombia by Arturo Escobar and Mauricio Pardo......Page 350 Part IV: THE RESISTANCE OF THE SUBALTERN: THE CASE OF MEDICINE......Page 378 12. Marginalized Medical Practice: The Marginalization and Transformation of Indigenous Medicines in South Africa by Thokozani Xaba......Page 379 13. "When there are no problems, we are healthy, no bad luck, nothing": Towards an Emancipatory Understanding of Health and Medicine by Maria Paula G. Meneses......Page 414 Part V: COMMENTARIES......Page 443 14. Globalization, Multiculturalism, and Law by Yash Ghai......Page 445 15. People-Based Globalization by Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher......Page 479 Index......Page 501 This is the third volume of the series Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes . Another Knowledge Is Possible explores the struggles against moral and cultural imperialism and neoliberal globalization that have taken place over the past few decades, and the alternatives that have emerged in countries throughout the developing world from Brazil and Colombia, to India, South Africa and Mozambique. In particular it looks at the issue of biodiversity, the confrontation between scientific and non-scientific knowledges, and the increasing difficulty experienced by great numbers of people in accessing information and scientific-technological knowledge.