September 2023

The Quest for Self-reflective Knowledge and Practice: Is an Epistemological Blindness Relative to Time and Situation?

This article serves as both an expository and critical reflection on the fifth chapter of Boaventura De Sousa Santos's book (2014), titled “Epistemologies of the South: Justice against Epistemicide”. The fifth chapter, entitled “Toward an Epistemology of Blindness: Why the New Forms of ‘Ceremonial Adequacy’ Neither Regulate nor Emancipate” (pages 136-163), is the focus of this...

Author(s): Taye Birhanu Taressa