1st Edition
Ancestral Knowledges and Postcoloniality in Contemporary Ecuador Epistemic Struggles and Situated Cosmopolitanisms
Introduction
On Coloniality, Power, Knowledge, and the (Nation-)State
Structure of the Monograph
About this Research
CHAPTER I Nation, Power, Knowledge: The Knowledge Society
From 'Banana Republic' to Knowledge Society
Knowledge as an Infinite Resource
Ancestral Knowledges as Objects of State Discourse
Ancestral Knowledges for a Knowledge Society
The (Re-)Valorisation of Ancestral Knowledges
Concluding Remarks
CHAPTER II Development, Nature, Knowledge: A Change of the Productive Matrix?
A Brief Look on Development and Extractivism
From the Petroleum Boom to the Knowledge Boom
Ancestral Knowledges for a Bio-Economy
Of Protection(isms) and Utilization/Exploitation
Neo-Developmentalism, Neo-Extractivisms
Concluding Remarks
CHAPTER III State, Science, Education: The Knowledge Revolution
The Struggle for Self-Determined Education
Correa's Educational and Knowledge Revolution
Intercultural Bilingual Education
Amawtay Wasi in the Straightjacket of Quality
The Knowledge Revolution's University
Concluding Remarks
CHAPTER IV Conocimientos Propios and Struggles for Epistemic Justice
Conocimientos Propios and Epistemic Self-Determination
Schooling, Education, and Science Otherwise
Struggles for Plurinationality and/or Interculturality
Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise
Concluding Remarks
CHAPTER V Of (Post-)Neoliberal/(Post-)Multicultural Governmentality, Epistemic Struggles, and Situated Cosmopolitanism(s)
Governing Difference: (Post-)/Neoliberal Multiculturalisms
Governing Epistemic Difference
Epistemic Justice, Self-Determination, and Beyond
Rethinking the Cosmopolitical: Situated Cosmopolitanism(s)
Final Remarks
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Julia von Sigsfeld is currently research assistant at the GRASSI Ethnological Museum in Leipzig, Germany
