Ecologia de saberes em Boaventura de Sousa Santos: uma via para o resgate dos conhecimentos periféricos

Abstract

This scientific monograph addresses the ecology of knowledge in Boaventura De Sousa Santos: a path to the rescue of peripheral knowledge. The choice of theme is the result of a contemporary debate concerning the exacerbation of modern Western rationality based on the discrimination and inferiorization of peripheral knowledge. It is along these lines that we intend to analyze to what extent the ecology of knowledge contributes to the rescue of peripheral knowledge. The debate in question is important in today's community insofar as the ecology of knowledge emerges as a dialogical and pluriversal alternative to peripheral knowledge. The proposal in question is intended to bring together knowledge that has been silenced by modern science and that which has not been silenced. Given these findings, ecology of knowledge can be seen as an effective project for this debate to rescue knowledge destroyed by modern European science, as it rejects methodological uniqueness. The general objective of this research is the following: to analyze the ecology of knowledge as a way to rescue peripheral knowledge. Regarding the method, this research uses the bibliographic method and the textual hermeneutic technique, which consists of reading, interpreting and understanding the theoretical framework that substantiates the epistemology of the south and other works that deal with the analysis of this theme. The theoretical framework is based on the paradigm of southern epistemology of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, whose body is formed with the works of the author and his interlocutors. Therefore, the structure of the work will be three chapters. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)