Les « épistémologies du Sud » : quels apports et quelles incitations pour le monde associatif dans une perspective de transformation vers davantage de soutenabilité ?

The political, economic and social problems we face, coupled with the environmental "new deal", remain unresolved. They have become such that they invite us once again to deconstruct our deepest representations and the principles of modernity, this in order to go beyond a logic of reproduction that we know now untenable. We are therefore exhorted to imagine and build another future, which calls us to explore new ways of crossing or to take abandoned paths. In this sense, the "Epistemologies of the South" that the Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2016) makes visible, offer a reflection and formulate inspiring proposals that we propose to explain alder of these challenges. The sociology of absences, hermeneutics of emergences and knowledge ecology which result, being themselves very attached to citizen movements, this article also suggests to establish a link with the associative world which is, according to some authors, the most able to propose orientations for human well-being and Nature.