ISBN:
9781032208398
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 179 Seiten
Series Statement:
Entangled inequalities
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Äquivalent
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4/209866
Keywords:
Knowledge, Sociology of / Ecuador
;
Knowledge economy / Ecuador
;
Postcolonialism / Ecuador
;
Économie du savoir / Équateur
;
Knowledge economy
;
Knowledge, Sociology of
;
Postcolonialism
;
Ecuador
Abstract:
"In light of an unprecedented constitutional acknowledgement of diverse epistemologies and stipulation making the protection and advancement of so-called 'ancestral knowledges' a duty of the state, this research provides an analysis of the uptake of historically subalternized knowledges by the state during the government of Rafael Correa (2007-2017), as well as of the strive for epistemic justice by peoples and nationalities organizations' in the context of struggles for social change, decolonization, and self-determination. On the basis of rich empirical material, the analysis traces state discourses and practices and mechanisms to govern 'ancestral knowledges' in the framework of the government's Knowledge Society project and delineates how leaders of peoples and nationalities' organizations struggle for the decolonization of knowledge. This monograph will be of interest to those concerned with relations between peoples and nationalities and Latin American states, politics of recognition and collective rights, the workings of purportedly post-neoliberal governments and the possibilities and limits for alternatives to development, the struggle of peoples and nationalities' organizations for (epistemic) decolonization, as well as ongoing (re-)conceptualisations of cosmopolitanisms against restructurations of the coloniality of knowledge and being."
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index