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Maps for a Fiesta - A Latina/o Perspective on Knowledge and the Global Crisis (Hardcover)
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Maps for a Fiesta - A Latina/o Perspective on Knowledge and the Global Crisis (Hardcover)
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What can theology offer in the context of neoliberalism,
globalization, growing inequality, and an ever more ecologically
precarious planet that disproportionately affects the poor? This
book, by one of the country's best-known Latino theologians,
explores possibilities for liberation from the forces that would
impose certain forms of knowledge on our social world to manipulate
our experience of identity, power, and justice.
Beautifully written in a refreshingly direct and accessible prose,
Maduro's book is nevertheless built upon subtly articulated
critiques and insights. But to write a conventional academic
tractatus would have run counter to Maduro's project, which is
built on his argument that ignorance is masked in the language of
expertise, while true knowledge is dismissed because it is
sometimes articulated in pedestrian language by those who produce
it through the praxis of solidarity and struggle for social
justice.
With a generosity and receptivity to his readers reminiscent of
letters between old friends, and with the pointed but questioning
wisdom of a teller of parables, Maduro has woven together a
twenty-first-century reply to Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach." Neither
conventional monograph nor memoir, neither a theological nor a
political tract, but with elements of all of these, Maps for a
Fiesta arrives as Maduro's philosophical and theological testament
one that celebrates the knowledge-work and justice-making of the
poor.
What Maduro offers here is a profound meditation on the
relationship between knowledge and justice that could be read as a
manifesto against the putatively unknowable world that capitalist
chaos has made, in favor of a world that is known by the measure of
its collective justice. His fiesta grants us the joy that nourishes
us in our struggles, just as knowledge gives us the tools to build
a more just society. What Maduro offers is nothing less than an
epistemology of liberation.
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