DECOLONIAL STRATEGIES: NOTES ON EPISTEMIC DISOBEDIENCE
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This paper takes as its starting point the decoloniality of knowledge as developed by Walter Mignolo (2008). The place of modern intellectual, who, in a prominent position, acts as mediator of popular demands, loses ground to the action of other agents and prospects. Thereafter, it follows decolonial strategies, such as epistemic disobedience, to challenge the hegemony of Western thought against others ways of knowing, such as the ones specific from indigenous and African-descent cultures. Is created, thereby, what Mignolo calls "border thinking" through transversal relationships that may be conciliatory or confrontational. The following question is the universal perspective of epistemology. What we suggested here, by contrast, is the discussion of authors and cultural agents who deal within a pluri-versal proposal.
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