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In Defense of the Southern Standpoint. A Friendly Response to Comments
Abstract
This essay responds to the commentaries on Go's "Globalizing Sociology, Turning South. Perspectival Realism and the Southern Standpoint" by Fernanda Beigel, Charles Crothers, and Weibke Keim. It responds to criticisms of essentialism, particularism and epistemic relativism in Southern theory.
Keywords
- Social Theory
- Indigenous Sociology
- Southern Theory
- Standpoint Theory
- Perspectival Realism