Aspects of (de)coloniality and ecological epistemology with emphasis on Ayahuasca: discourses and emancipation

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https://doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v9i5.2693

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Epistemology; Ecology of Knowledge; Decoloniality.

Abstract

The article analyzes decoloniality and ecological epistemology with emphasis on the nonhuman as emancipation from hegemonic scientific thought. Methodologically, the article results from a bibliographical research and discussions during the epistemology discipline, in the master's course in anthropic studies in the Amazon. It has as sources the bibliography mainly Enrique Dussel and Boa Ventura de Sousa Santos with analysis based on the bibliographic systematic narrative. Theoretically, it is inspired by the studies of João Batista Santiago Ramos about the human utopia, restricting this text to the notion of the ecology of knowledge in the anthropic perspective as a need to overcome the colonialist perspective of knowledge production, and thus, to promote reflections on the deconstruction of hegemonic discourses and practices from Europe. It can be understood that it is necessary to extend the gaze beyond cultures, including the non-human point of view and include them as subjects of knowledge, counteracting this ontological dualism of modern science.

Author Biography

Gleibson do Nascimento Silva, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARÁ


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19/03/2020

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SILVA, G. do N.; ROCHA, C. J. T. da; RAMOS, J. B. S. Aspects of (de)coloniality and ecological epistemology with emphasis on Ayahuasca: discourses and emancipation. Research, Society and Development, [S. l.], v. 9, n. 5, p. e08952693, 2020. DOI: 10.33448/rsd-v9i5.2693. Disponível em: https://www.rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/2693. Acesso em: 23 apr. 2024.

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Vol. 9 No. 5

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Human and Social Sciences

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