Ancestral Knowledges and Postcoloniality in Contemporary Ecuador - Epistemic Struggles and Situated Cosmopolitanisms

Drawing on rich interview material, this book examines marginalized knowledges as a field of epistemic struggle, examining the uptake of historically subalternized knowledges by the state in Ecuador, and their role in Indigenous organizations' struggles for social change and decolonization, collective rights, and self-determination.

List of contents

Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Nation, Power, Knowledge: The Knowledge Society; CHAPTER 2 Development, Nature, Knowledge: A Change of the Productive Matrix?; CHAPTER 3 State, Science, Education: The Knowledge Revolution; CHAPTER 4 Conocimientos Propios and Struggles for Epistemic Justice; CHAPTER 5 Of (Post-)Neoliberal/(Post-)Multicultural Governmentality, Epistemic Struggles, and Situated Cosmopolitanism(s); Final Remarks

About the author

Julia von Sigsfeld is currently research assistant at the GRASSI Ethnological Museum in Leipzig, Germany

Summary

Drawing on rich interview material, this book examines marginalized knowledges as a field of epistemic struggle, examining the uptake of historically subalternized knowledges by the state in Ecuador, and their role in Indigenous organizations' struggles for social change and decolonization, collective rights, and self-determination.

Product details

• Authors: Julia von Sigsfeld
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032191607
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3219160-7
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Entangled Inequalities: Exploring Global Asymmetries
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Ecuador, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity