ABSTRACT
This chapter takes issue with the geopolitics of knowledge in today’s globalised world. We look at the ways in which the power differential is inscribed in knowledge production and how knowledge production is constitutive of the very geopolitical cleavage lines that inform subject formation in the Global South. Deconstructing the domination of Western knowledge production means also to point to the particularity of Southern theory and the locations of its emergence as it often stems from outside of Academia and is deeply engrained in the practical logics of political and social movements. By means of a conclusion, we engage with the terminological apparatus proposed by one of the leading scholar in this field, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, probing his concept of an ecologies of knowledges with respect to how it envisages the role of the aesthetic-expressive rationality of human creativity.
