What are the types of knowledge that are produced and reproduced in the university? What are the main challenges that this institution has faced during the last forty years and that it faces today more than ever? Is it possible to decolonize it? Guided by the above questions, this book analyzes the constant threat that the university faces as a public good and establishes coordinates to guarantee its future. Betting that this space can value and transmit the knowledge born from the struggle, Boaventura de Sousa Santos presents and analyzes proposals to show that it is possible to turn the deep crisis that affects the university into an opportunity to change it in a plural, emancipatory and actively involved in the epistemologies of the South.
