In eighties Boaventura de Sousa Santos proposed a change heading the overcoming of the separation between natural sciences and social sciences, between those objects that has been studied and those subjects that study them. This separation is the core of the colonial nature of our academic knowledge. The scientific rigour quatify, and doing that dequalify. … Continue reading A discourse about sciences (in Spanish)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Beyond abyssal thinking. From global lines to ecology of knowledges
This text presents coloniality as an epistemological coloniality (abyssal thinking), stressing the need for an epistemological renewal in order to exit the colonial circuit. Particularly interesting is the fact that Sousa not only points the problem out, but also proposes a solution based on the concept of “ecology of knowledge”. Ecological thinking is understood as … Continue reading Beyond abyssal thinking. From global lines to ecology of knowledges