Descentrando a Europa: aportes de la teoría postcolonial y el giro decolonial al conocimiento situado Decentralizing Europe: contributions of postcolonial theory and the decolonial shift to situated knowledge

Abstract

In contrast to the conceptions of knowledge as universal and dazzled, this article makes a tour of different authors and theoretical positions that have argued the situationality of knowledge. One of the effects of assuming this situationality is explored in this article from the notion of provincializing Europe (suggested by Chakrabarty) as a displacement and epistemic and political decentering of hyperreal Europe. Since this displacement and disintegration does not signify an apology to relativism or a fetishization of a notion of otherness as exteriority or purity, in the final part of the article the notion of self-thought is discussed.