Teoria social e desafios epistemológicos na geopolítica do conhecimento

Abstract

Significant epistemological turns have emerged in peripheral contexts of knowledge production, challenging consolidated notions of "modernity" and "scientific reason". These turns have had a profound impact on Social Theory, initially in the Indian and Anglo-Saxon academic sphere, and later in Latin America, where a critical re-reading of realities shaped by colonization, slavery, ethnocide, sexism, and racism began to problematize the "dark side of modernity". This article aims to analyze how Contemporary Social Theory has deconstructed the idea of a monolithic, universal, and absolute modernity, expanding our understanding of subalternities and colonialities. It seeks to offer critiques of the production, circulation, and consumption of grand narratives by engaging with alternative approaches that propose a reevaluation of established canons in Sociology, in order to highlight new epistemologies stemming from diverse perspectives, discourse, and agency.