Southern Epistemologies - Thinking about the south beyond the empire: A reflection based on the ecology of knowledge

Abstract

This article aims to develop a reflection centred on the Ecology of Knowledge. The reflection arises from the growing need to expand the approaches to Southern Epistemologies - much in the perspective of sublimating the Ecology of Knowledge as an alternative to the production of knowledge. Methodologically, we resorted to Hermeneutics and the Epistemological Dialectic in parallel to interpret texts by various authors, concluding that, through the bleaching of History, the establishment of a monopolistic scientific community, through abyssal thinking, helped and excluded Epistemologies from the South, placing them on the other side, through the division that polarizes the world in North and South, the South is a product far beyond the Empire.

Keywords: Multiculturalism, abyssal thinking, knowledge ecology.