Manifest na rzecz Dobrego Życia / Buen Vivir
Manifesto for Good Living / Buen Vivir

Summary/Abstract: A presentation of the opening chapter of Boaventura de Sousa Santos’ Epistemologies of the South. Justice Against Epistemicide (2014): “The global South is not a geographical concept, even though the great majority of its populations live in countries of the Southern hemisphere. The South is rather a metaphor for the human suffering caused by capitalism and colonialism on the global level, as well as for the resistance to overcoming or minimising such suffering. It is, therefore, an anti-capitalist, anticolonialist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-imperialist South.It is a South that also exists in the geographic North (Europe and North America), in the form of excluded, silenced and marginalised populations”. Manifesto heralds an epistemic revolution calling for a new visibility of the peoples of the global South and a search for other non-European, non-colonial, and non-capitalist ways of life.

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