Everyday knowledge: current epistemological challenges

Abstract

This study intends to reflect on the possibilities to escape the dichotomous logic of European thinking that subordinates subjects and knowledge while promoting mass epistemicide. Considering post-war reality as a turning point, we wish to evade the epistemic occidental pattern as a referential model of knowledge that ensures permanence of an intellectual elite who follows a white canon that is unfit to comprehend the internal dynamics of brazilian society. As such, we propose a bibliographical review based on authors such as Santos (2007), Hall (2019), Ela (2016), and Mbembe (2014), among others that invest in racialization as a way to understand how European’s project of colonization establishes itself as way of domination. It is evident the permanent need of questioning the European model and how it applies the enlightenment knowledge, which will contribute to highlight new voices and to widespread different knowledge. After all, it is unacceptable to think western’s production of knowledge without questioning the investment made in denying the production of knowledge of non-European people.