Epistemologies of the South: thinking about the South beyond the empire. A reflection centered on the ecology of knowledge

Abstract

Entitled Epistemologies of the South: thinking about the South beyond the Empire, this article aims to develop a reflection centered on the Ecology of Knowledge. The reflection arises from the growing need to expand approaches to the Epistemologies of the South – much in the perspective of sublimation of the Ecology of Knowledge as an alternative to the production of knowledge. Through the crossing of some authors who proposed to discuss multicultural issues, there is in the research a search for understanding about the direction that scientific dialogue has taken in relation to the discussion about the abyssal thinking proposed by Boaventura De Sousa Santos and Maria Paula Meneses. Methodologically, we make use of hermeneutics for the purpose of interpreting texts by various authors, reaching the conclusion that, through the whitening of History, the establishment of a monopolistic scientific community was helped, through abyssal thinking, and excluded the Epistemologies of the South, placing them on the other side, through the division that polarizes the world into North and South, with the South being a product far beyond the Empire.[1]

[1] The research was not funded. It was paid for by the author.