O pensamento fronteiriço em Walter Mignolo: uma reflexão sobre a descolonização epistémica

Abstract

The monograph is entitled: Walter Mignolo's border thinking: a reflection on epistemic decolonisation. The topic was chosen because the West, in the course of building its epistemologies, has affirmed itself through negation, justifying its existence through a continuous process of violence, the destruction of humanity, especially black humanity. And in these terms, the West understands itself to be the "home of epistemology". The process of alterocide led by the West had one of its greatest moments in the creation of modernity, at the time of the encounter with the Other, and by bringing colonisation out into the open through coloniality. Afrocentricity, like frontier thinking, takes the local as a real physical space for the production of knowledge thus rescuing African dignity. Epistemic decolonisation brings free, equal, dignified subjects into dialogue to provide answers to the problems that afflict them, building epistemological bridges. Based on these assumptions, the research raises the following question How does epistemic decolonisation revitalise and re-establish a genuine scientific discourse without centres and peripheries? Its general objective is: To reflect on epistemic decolonisation based on frontier thinking as a decolonial proposal; and its specific objectives are: i) To problematise the concept of modernity and its racial-colonial project; ii) To contextualise the genesis and philosophical foundations of border thinking in Walter Mignolo; and iii) To explain epistemic decolonisation in the context of border thinking and its contours in the process of reconstructing new knowledges. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)