Towards a Health from the South: A decolonial and health sovereignty epistemology

Abstract

In this context, the epistemological bases of health have tended to move in a pendulum motion between the reproduction of a constant coloniality of power and health knowledge (Quijano, 1999), making the historical cycles move in accumulations of imported theories, policies and methodologies, in a permanent dynamic of imitation or, in the best of cases, in the adaptation of theses to the global North. Each episteme produced sedimentations, geo-cultural accumulations and institutional condensations in the health field, in academia, in the States, and in the societies as a whole throughout the 20th century.