Abstract:
This paper addresses the decoloniality of knowledge, using postcolonial studies as a spatial cut-out, from a conception of the Global South. By means of bibliographical research supported by the dialectic method, we propose to rethink how the Ecologies of Knowledge that arise from social struggles constitute themselves as ents of knowledge production and local knows that arise from an Epistemological South, and no longer geographic. As a theoretic reference, we use the border-abyssal thinking proposed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2010) as a way of epistemic decolonization that allows us to break with the structural and epistemological knots of Western modernity. Moreover, as a subsidy for analysis, we draw on the thought of Walter Mignolo (2008, 2017) and Maldonado-Torres (2010) in a critique of dominant conceptions of modernity linked to colonial experiences and their markers of differentiation.
Keywords:
Sociocultural collectives; Decoloniality; Ecology of knowledge; Colonial matrix; Abyssal thinking