Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South, Adriana Allen; Liza Griffin; Cassidy Johnson

Автор: Roberts J. Timmons, Toffolon-Weiss Melissa M.
Название: Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline
ISBN: 0521669006 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521669009
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline, first published in 1991, provides a rare glimpse of the environmental justice movement as it plays out in four landmark struggles. The authors describe how, at the end of the twentieth century, situations of environmental injustice are created and eventually resolved.

Автор: Santos Boaventura De Sousa
Название: Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide
ISBN: 1612055451 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781612055459
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: In a world of appalling social inequalities people are becoming more aware of the multiple dimensions of injustice, whether social, political, cultural, sexual, ethnic, religious, historical, or ecological. Rarely acknowledged is another vital dimension: cognitive injustice, the failure to recognize the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. This book shows why cognitive injustice underlies all the other dimensions; global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos's argument unfolds in two inquiries. No matter how internally diverse, Western Modernity provided the knowledge underlying the long cycle of colonialism followed by global capitalism. These historical processes profoundly devalued and marginalized the knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. Today, working against epistemicide is imperative in order to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Such recovery and valorization is the book's second inquiry and is based on four key analytical tools: sociology of absences, sociology of emergences, ecology of knowledges, and intercultural translation. The transformation of the world's epistemological diversity into an empowering instrument against hegemonic globalization points to a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism. It would promote a wide conversation of humankind, celebrating conviviality, solidarity, and life against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism and the destruction of life to which world populations large and small are condemned by the dominant forces of globalization.