For an epistemic “Bandung”: Africa, Global South, and the energetic of knowledge production in the global era
Keywords:
Globalization, knowledge, epistemic coloniality, Global South, production of knowledge, decolonialization of social sciencesAbstract
Globalization occurs on a basis of knowledge production whose geopolitical analysis shows a polarization around certain states and/or peoples, in this case the North. These actors maintain their dominant position by multiplying various devices designed to perpetuate their relationship with those who are in a weak position in the act of thinking. Knowledge and the flow of information are part of these spaces as vectors of hegemony. In this planetary partition of knowledge production, Africa finds itself in a bad position that places it under the sign of a complex dependency. This text aims to analyze what Africa is doing in terms of an epistemic disobedience in the field of knowledge production in the social sciences. Following a current of thought known as epistemic decoloniality, we want to show that Africa must embark on this liberating work through an epistemic “Bandung”.
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