Stained epistemologies: the ch'ixi thought as a decolonization proposal

• Grant number: 17/17046-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: April 01, 2018
• End date: February 28, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Artionka Manuela Goes Capiberibe
• Grantee: Chryslen Mayra Barbosa Gonçalves
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In the last decades, some critiques became evident in the field of Human Sciences through the analysis of colonial antinomy historically built upon determined spaces, therefore authors formed the asian group of Subaltern Studies based on western authors such as Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze, named as postcolonial. Understanding the critiques and demands subsequently created by the postcolonial, some authors, specially linked to the latin-american Social Sciences, began the group of thought known as Modernidad/Colonialidad conceiving the Decolonial category as a proposal of a latin-american thought opposed to the historical imposition of a unique and universal epistemology, the western one. In dialogue with this discussion the Aymara sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui structures a anti-colonial analysis emphasizing ruptures with the postcolonial authors and the Decolonial thought, based upon latin-american indigenous authors and movements to the consolidation of a decolonised proposal, the ch'ixi thought, proposition operationalised by the author and other subjects in "Tambo: colectivo ch'ixi", a space constructed and self-organized in the city of La Paz. Thus, this research aims to investigate how the ch'ixi is perceived as a possibility of a thought that enables a dialogue between epistemologies. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

GONÇALVES, Chryslen Mayra Barbosa. Epistemologias manchadas: mestizaje y sujetos politicos de la descolonización en la Bolívia andina. 2019. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.