Au-delà des savoirs

Since 2020, the Autonomous Communal University of Oaxaca (UACO) has been operating in the state of Oaxaca through sixteen Communal University Centres (CUCs), gathered to defend their way of life and way of thinking, known as comunalidad. The communal university, as a space of contradiction where dif...

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Main Author: Claire Lapique
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Language:English
Published: Université Catholique de Louvain 2024-06-01
Series:Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rsa/6457
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description Since 2020, the Autonomous Communal University of Oaxaca (UACO) has been operating in the state of Oaxaca through sixteen Communal University Centres (CUCs), gathered to defend their way of life and way of thinking, known as comunalidad. The communal university, as a space of contradiction where different logics – communal and imposed – intersect, projects a resistance that goes beyond knowledge to address “civilisational” issues (Martinez Luna, 2013, 2015). It is thus at the heart of political issues. In fact, while community knowledge is sometimes decontextualised and integra­ted into state or liberal structures, the ways of life that surround it remain marginalised and even threatened. In addition to a sociology of the circulation of knowledge, a sociology of “communication breakdowns” between different regimes of knowledge (Bou­mediene, 2019) allows us to situate the university as one of the manifestations of community resistance to the mechanisms of capitalist and colonial domination (Merchant, 1980; Federici, 2020).
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Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques
resistance
interculturality
comunalidad
knowledge hierarchies
colonialism
commons
title Au-delà des savoirs
title_full Au-delà des savoirs
title_fullStr Au-delà des savoirs
title_full_unstemmed Au-delà des savoirs
title_short Au-delà des savoirs
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topic resistance
interculturality
comunalidad
knowledge hierarchies
colonialism
commons
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