ABSTRACT
The Epistemologies of the South is a cosmopolitan epistemological and pedagogical project that challenges the social sciences and legal thinking to identify, denounce and strive to overcome the abyssal exclusions characteristic of Eurocentric modernity arising from its modes of domination, namely a fluctuating combination of capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy. Law represents one of the most complete manifestations of abyssal thinking, making everything that is not recognized by official state or international law illegal, invisible and illegitimate. The supposed universality of law conceals the abyssal line separating human beings who are fully recognized as such from human beings who are systematically treated as subhuman and therefore cannot count on the protection of the law. The objective is to promote debates based on the logic of radical co-presence, that is, dialogue in which the contemporary/primitive dichotomy is replaced by transversal recognition of the incompleteness of knowledges and the provincialization of modern understanding and law.
