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In this brief discussion, I reflect on the significance of using the category of the global south for reconfiguring the scope of the history of knowledge. While I see this as a productive paradigm shift that has already given rise to mould-breaking works, I focus here on the cross-hemispheric histories of extractive capitalism and how both colonial violence and anticolonial resistance have shaped knowledge-making. I argue that thinking through ‘entangled ecologies’ can be a tool for countering the existing conceptual order, which has led to the north-south division in the first place. Attending to epistemic and ontological entanglements would enable us to ask better and deeper questions about the increasingly complex interconnections across human and nonhuman worlds, especially given the planetary crises we face today.
Keywords: entangled ecologies; global history; Global South; history of knowledge; Latin America; periphery
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Part of Displacing Theory Through the Global South Containing:
Introduction: Displacing Theory: Berlin Notes / Iracema Dulley, Özgün Eylül İşcen
History of Knowledge through the Global South: A Case for Entangled Ecologies
Decolonialities and the Exilic Consciousness: Thinking from the Global South / Mahmoud Al-Zayed
Berlin’s Killjoys: Feminist Art from the Global South / Şirin Fulya Erensoy
Challenges of Southern Knowledge Production: Reflections on/through Iran / Firoozeh Farvardin, Nader Talebi
Invitation, To Exi(s)t / Iracema Dulley, Juliana M. Streva
To Be Given Names: Displaced Social Positionalities in Senegal and Angola / Iracema Dulley, Frederico Santos dos Santos
Marx on the Periphery: The Making of a New Tradition at the University of São Paulo / Bernardo Bianchi
Inner World and Milieu: Art, Madness, and Brazilian Psychiatry in the Work of Nise da Silveira / Marlon Miguel
Kill your Darlings (Working Title) / Kata Katz
Making Germany’s Hidden Yet Omnipresent Colonial Past Visible / Ana Carolina Schveitzer
Object: This Not-a-Paper ‘on’ the Andropobscenic University / Bruna Martins Coelho
Title
History of Knowledge through the Global South
Subtitle
A Case for Entangled Ecologies
Author(s)
Michela Coletta
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-29_02
Description
In this brief discussion, I reflect on the significance of using the category of the global south for reconfiguring the scope of the history of knowledge. While I see this as a productive paradigm shift that has already given rise to mould-breaking works, I focus here on the cross-hemispheric histories of extractive capitalism and how both colonial violence and anticolonial resistance have shaped knowledge-making. I argue that thinking through ‘entangled ecologies’ can be a tool for countering the existing conceptual order, which has led to the north-south division in the first place. Attending to epistemic and ontological entanglements would enable us to ask better and deeper questions about the increasingly complex interconnections across human and nonhuman worlds, especially given the planetary crises we face today.
Is Part Of
Displacing Theory Through the Global South
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
2 April 2024
Subject
entangled ecologies
global history
Global South
history of knowledge
Latin America
periphery
Rights
© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Language
en-GB
page start
15
page end
28
Source
Displacing Theory Through the Global South, ed. by Iracema Dulley and Özgün Eylül İşcen, Cultural Inquiry, 29 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2024), pp. 15–28

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Cite as: Michela Coletta, ‘History of Knowledge through the Global South: A Case for Entangled Ecologies’, in Displacing Theory Through the Global South, ed. by Iracema Dulley and Özgün Eylül İşcen, Cultural Inquiry, 29 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2024), pp. 15-28 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-29_02>