Para além do Pensamento Abissal: Das linhas globais a uma ecologia de saberes

Abstract

The first part of this essay argues that the “abyssal” cartographies delimiting the Old World and the New World in the colonial era live on structurally in modern western thought and remain as constitutive elements in excluding political and cultural relations retained in the contemporary world system. Global social injustice would thus be closely related to global cognitive injustice, so that the struggle for global social justice calls for the construction of “post-abyssal” thinking, whose principles are presented in the second half of the essay as programmatic premises for an “ecology of knowledges”.

Keywords

• scientific knowledge
• modern science
• common sense
• alternative knowledge
• ecology of knowledges