Les réalités du Sud sont-elles solubles dans la pensée du Nord  ? Enjeux et perspectives

Abstract

What postures should be adopted to understand and explain the social realities of the South? How to prevent the perverse effects of the logics historically produced and culturally marked by the thought of the North? Understanding and explaining combine in this thought to deconstruct the mechanisms of reproduction and social innovation devices produced and reinstituted by northern societies. The critical studies presented here open, each in its own way, new avenues of reflection. Beyond their very strong contextual diversity and the peculiarities proper to their respective objects, they are part of a hermeneutic of emergences. Their point of convergence is their desire to seize the emancipatory potentials conceived and deployed by and in the societies of the South, through alternative practices, as diverse in their entirety as singular in the intelligence of their responses to the local contexts where they take form.

Keywords

• symbolic south
• southern societie
• postcoloniality
• northern paradigms
• epistemologies
• emancipation