EPISTEMOLOGIES OF THE SOUTH Armindo dos Santos de

EPISTEMOLOGIES OF THE SOUTH Armindo dos Santos de Sousa Teodósio (Téo) PUC Minas Brazil armindo. teodosio@gmailcom 9 th Organizations, Artifacts and Practices (OAP) Workshop São Paulo, 24 -26 July - 2019

BY THE BOAVENTURA´S HANDS UNTIL THE MANAGEMENT LAND: THE LONG AND WILD ROAD OF THE SOUTHERN EPISTEMOLOGIES Ph. D. Law (Coimbra / Yale) Professor Head of Center for Social Studies (CES) University of Coimbra – Portugal Ph. D. Thesis – Informal Law and Conflict Resolution – Rio de Janeiro – “Jacarezinho” Slum – Brazil Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Gramsci, Rawls, . . . Lastest Research: Alice Epistemologies of the South (Summer School)

MY PRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTS OF BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS STUDIES EPISTEMOLOGIES OF THE SOUTH (E. S. ) MAIN THEORETICAL CONCEPTS RESEARCHING, PUBLISHING AND TEACHING IN MANAGEMENT (Inside the Land of Doubts, Contradictions and Paradoxes)

SOME WRITINGS By the Alice´s Hand: Social and Politician in the Postmod University in the XXI Century Democratizing the Democracy Right of the Opressed Epistemologies of the South

MAIN CONCEPTS Sociology of Absence / Emergency Sociology Hegemonic Globalization / Counter-Hegemonic Globalization Democracy / Emancipation Indolent Reason/ Rationality / Ecology of Knowledge Southern Epistemologies “There is no global justice without global cognitive justice, that is, without justice between knowledge. ”

EPISTEMOLOGIES OF THE SOUTH Global North x Global South Regular (Modern) Science – support for the Hegemonic Globalization and Capitalism “Epistemicide”: Killing of the alternative knowledge Traditional knowledge Modern Science is the Truth Abyssal Thinking – Side Separation – There is not other side Post-Abyssal Thinking Epistemological Diversity Ecology of Knowledges (Edgard Morin) Ecological Rationalitty (Enrique Leff) Learn with the South

RATIONALITY: OUR WISH OBJECT Indolent Reason Metonymic Ratio Totality consisting of homogeneous parts The rest does not exist (invisible people, invisible organizing, invisible management) Cosmopolitan Reason (Fraternity, Equality and Liberty without Fraternity, Equaity and Liberty) Take care of the Future – Does not built the Future (social movement without movement, without power to act) Monoculture of the linear time (even in the marxist approach – in the future all of us will be comunists) Ecology of Knowledge Not Scientific Not Philosophical Not Western

LEARNING WITH THE SOUTH Globalizatin Conflicts and Counter-Hegemonic Globalizaton are more intense in the South “Where is the South in the Management Studies? ” South: Participatory Democracy (Brazil) Poor´s Ecology – Recyclers (Brazil, India, . . . ) “Bem Viver” (Equador) How do not transforme the South in a Exotic Case Study? (The Exotic naturalizes the Mainstream) How do not translate your mindset and knowledge to the South actors and social movements?

UNIVERSITY – SOCIETY INTERACTIONS The society, the South inside the University – to teach, not necessaraly to learn How do dialogue with conservative people? Business Schools as breeding ground for convervative people Business Schools as place to educate the capitalists cannibals (John Elkington) The engaged researcher: Hero? ! Radical? ! Lazy? ! Opportunistic? ! Dictator? ! Pop Star? ! The Guy? ! Criticizing the critics: Boaventura de Sousa Santos as good conqueror – take the knowledge of the South and make a concept of this – (European, Male, White, Doctor, . . . ) How to create good partnerships for engaged research? (Mariana and Brumadinho cases) Producing knowledge or making visible?

MAKING VISIBLE THE INVISIBLE Publishing Papers or “Rage Against the Machine”? Sing some Rap? Making Pop the South – “Esquenta” - Regina Case – The consumption of the politically right Doing transformative research and doing social change by traditional ways? ! Qualitative x Quantitive battles Dialogue bewteen Deaf and Blind People about Rigor in the Modern Science Participatory, Action and Engaged Research starts with the Research Team and Postgraduate Program Who says what!? - Kidnapping of Speech Place The role of the Empathy – Alterity – Many engaged researchers became “Simpactic Researchers”

SOCIOLOGY OF ABSENCE Five Monocultures – Western Rationality – Lazy Rationality: First Absence – Knowledge and Rigor Modern Science as unique knowledge Separation between theory and práxis Second Absence – Linear Time North Knowledge even in the vangard - Modernity Third Absence – Naturalization of Differences Multiculturalism – Power Relations – Explotation Relations as regular social relations Fourth Absence - Existence of a Dominant Scale Globalization – Universalism (some rigths for all the people around the world – never were the same) How to promote Human Rights or going forward Human Rights in times of Fascist return? (Human Rights is a under -researched issue in Management Studies) What is the dominant scale in the Management Studies? Fifth Absence - Capitalist Productivism Doing research about the South is bring the Plague to the not capitalistic organizing and local communities?

SOCIOLOGY OF EMERGENCE Possible social change – not a idealistic social change The future is not determined Future as something concrete – not as an idealistic and abstract future Create intelligibility within plurality Translation – intercultural, intersectorial and interdisciplinar process How to be interdisciplinar within disciplinar Business Schools and disciplinar public policies of education? Emancipation – Agaisnt Capitalism, Patriarchal Society and Colonization of Knowledge Making Paulo Freire a Pop Star? Or a Demon? “There is no culture that is complete, you need to translate to see the truth without relativism”

THANK YOU! ATTENTION AND. . PATIENCE. KKK. . . FOR YOUR Téo Armindo dos Santos de Sousa Teodósio Ph. D. on Management Associate Professor Postgraduated Program in Management Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte – Minas Gerais - Brazil armindo. teodosio@gmail. com Whats. App: 55 31 8794 9564 (please, use the Whats. App with Empathy)