Homem marginal e colonialismo interno: uma ausência latino-americana na epistemologia de(s)colonial.

Abstract

Criticism directed to the myth of self-centered modernity in the hegemonic conception of modern science, and regimented in Europa province, compose a central program in Latin American sociology. It is a project that critically examines the universalist pretensions from social sciences regarding to non-Western past and present, determining a controversial applicability in local histories. This dissertation deals with the dialectical amplitude of concepts formulated by the Modernity/Coloniality/ Decoloniality Group, which feeds new elaborations on proper concepts from Latin American social theory. These are critical efforts undertaken to demonstrate the limits and to present alternatives to hegemonic European theories. The fruitful reach of this de(s)colonial epistemology/ontology, which is projected as a science under construction by different authors and in dispersed contexts, enhances the Latin American social theory, specifically, the anticolonial. The issue is based on this originality of the new theoretical and methodological undertaking de(s)colonial in face of Eurocentric rationality. In this sense, we formulated a relevant problem for the methodological proposals of the Group and which guided us: to what extent does the epistemological proposal of a decolonial turn does not reset provincial issues of the European context in the Latin American ontological extensiveness? The main goal is to accomplish a critical appraisal concerned on the production of knowledge in Latin American social theory, sociologically retaking the colonial proposal(s) and addressing, specifically, the permanencies of coloniality in Latin America. We understand that the Group has been producing concepts that are capable of instrumentalizing and presenting the limits of hegemonic theoretical assumptions that circulate around the world. Our interest is on a possible and latent epistemological option in its theoretical production as a de(s)colonial knowledge. In this way, we affirm that the Modernity/Coloniality/Decoloniality Group pleads for a symmetrical equality by ignoring certain social scientists. Now, this original reference has the ability to legitimize a social theory and, like the Eurocentric proposal, it does not affect its quality of work. Henceforth, the frequent presence of Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias, Jurgen Habermas, Karl Marx, among many other Eurocentrics, contrasts with the outstanding absence of Latin American sociologists, in particular, conceptually due to the internal colonialism of Pablo González Casanova and methodologically in the marginal man by Florestan Fernandes.