ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the Latin American and other scholars from the 'global South'. A 'South' refers to countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia (LACCA). 'North' refers to countries in Europe and North America including Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. As soon as Latin American independence was achieved in the nineteenth century and the scholastic and pontifical university marginalized, the positivism of Comte served as a "spiritual guide" for many Latin Americans, the basic formula of Comte's philosophy, "order and progress", is still vividly present as a constituent part of the Brazilian flag. A possible overcoming of the Cover-science problem might consist in the so-called "indigenization" of knowledge. According to this approach, representatives of indigenization suggest that eurocentrism can be overcome in peripheral regions by means of reconstructing the autochthonous traditions of particular socio-historical contexts. Ronald Dore explains the increasing indigenization of knowledge production in the peripheral world by the second-generation indigenization phenomenon.