Haitian Meditation
Inspired by fieldwork in Quebec, Haiti and Africa, this article offers a political and ethical critique of the positivist epistemology that dominates the contemporary regime of knowledge production. I show that this epistemology carries within it a powerful injunction of separation between mind and body, feelings and thought, commitment and knowledge, as well as science and society, that can be experienced as violence and an appeal to be indifferent to others. I oppose to it a relational epistemology which tries to preserve and make visible, in a social sciences text, all the human ties that make possible knowledge creation. The article in itself is a writing experience within that epistemology. It is nourished by my encounter with the epistemologies of the Global South and my aspiration to cognitive justice.