Abstract: This chapter engages with local, plural, and deliberative forms of knowledge and its potential for social innovation. Based on the premise that knowledge is co-produced with particular social orderings, knowledges that come ‘from below’ represent alternatives to and resistance against institutionally embedded knowledge ‘from above.’ We illustrate this with three cases. The first case offers a historical perspective by reassessing the knowledge and agricultural practices underlying resistance against Caribbean slave-based plantation econ...
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