Spring Academy 2024 - Pluriversal Knowledge
April 8th - 12th, 2024
Spring Academy 2024 - Pluriversal Knowledge
The multiple crises created by the current dynamics of globalization have called the concepts such as development, progress, and modernization into question. In the face of such a scenario, pluriversal thinking offers ways for imagining alternative social designs. Towards this aim, the 2024 Spring Academy "Pluriversal Knowledge" calls for an engagement in the ongoing debates in academia, activism, and cultural production that focuses on the Pluriverse as a methodological and theoretical framework that has emerged in the context of post-developmentalist thought and epistemologies of the South. Looking for “a world into which many worlds fit”, we follow Arturo Escobar’s invitation to develop a capacity to design alternative worlds that challenge globalization's drive to homogenize what is diverse in principle. Thus, we take up the provoking impetus of new political ontologies, indigenous notions of the good living and calls for cognitive justice. In accordance with the way which Global South Studies addresses issues of globalization in a comparative and transdisciplinary perspective, the ICGSS Summer School will combine theoretical and methodological debates with scholars from the partner universities in the Global South, alongside colleagues from Asia-Pacific and Latin America, with a dialogue between academia, art, and political activism.
Partner Universities
Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Universität Tübingen
Coordinators
Convenors
Dr. Prof. Susanne Goumegou (UT)
Dr. Prof. Sebastian Thies (UT)
Dr. Prof. Russell West-Pavlov (UT)
Organizers
Charles Rono (UT)
Kristell Pech-Oxte (UT)
Ronica Vungmuankim (UT)
Souraja Chakraborty (UT)
Valeria Lopez Alvaro (UT)
Contact Person:
Laura Sánchez Carrillo (UT)
Archive of past Summer Schools
2022 - CIVIS School "North-South Encounters" - Pluriverse: Challenges of Post-Developmentalist Thought for Global South Studies
Tübingen, September 26-30, 2022
The multiple crises created by the current dynamics of globalization have called the concepts such as development, progress and modernization into question. In the face of such scenario, pluriversal thinking offers a radical "alternative for thinking alternatives" to Western hegemony (Boaventura de Sousa Santos: 2014).
Towards this aim, the 2022 CIVIS School "North-South Encounters" encourages to engage in the ongoing debates in academia, activism and cultural production that focus on the Pluriverse as a methodological and theoretical framework that has emerged in the context of post-developmentalist thought and epistemologies of the South.
Looking for “a world into which many worlds fit”, we follow Arturo Escobar’s invitation to develop a capacity to design alternative worlds that challenge globalization’s drive to homogenize what is diverse in principle. Thus, we take up the provoking impetus of new political ontologies, indigenous notions of the good living and calls for cognitive justice.
In accordance with the way which Global South studies address issues of globalization in a comparative and transdisciplinary perspective, the CIVIS school will combine theoretical debates with scholars from the CIVIS network (from Europe and Africa), alongside colleagues from Asia-Pacific and Latin America, with a dialogue between academia, art, and political activism