Epistemic de/colonization of the "i" and political misunderstanding of the "other"

Abstract

De-colonial reasoning establishes a peculiar manifestation of contemporary critical theory closely linked to the practices of the social sciences and humanities. However, there is a need for a critique of the dominant models and hierarchies of nationalities of knowledge, of the constitutive silencing of technologies and narratives of modern participation, of subjectivities, corporealities and agencies. This paper argues that the human and social sciences can and should be rethought from an epistemological multiplicity that dialogues and takes into account the forms of knowledge creation that are generated in extra-scientific and extra-academic spaces.