Inter-Epistemic Dialogues With Decolonial Thought and Praxis From Latin America and the Caribbean

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium opens an inter-epistemic dialogue with decolonial studies in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to center Indigenous, Black, and campesino thought-praxis situated outside of the anglosphere. It promotes intercultural translation to intersect concepts enunciated from diverse spaces/places, bodies, and sites of resistance in LAC that assist in the reconceptualization/resignification of curriculum and pedagogy (Santos, 2018). Translation is conceived as a transgressive dialogic act of betrayal against dominant interpretive frameworks. This symposium weaves an ethically/politically entangled network of scholars and intellectual activists from diverse geographies of reason (Gordon, 2011) to contribute conceptually to decolonial studies in education. Ultimately, it intends to open an inter-epistemic space that will foster an ecology of decolonial knowledge practices (Santos, 2009).

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 5: The Places and Praxis of Curriculum

Chair

• Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Texas Tech University

Papers

• Counterpedagogies of Cruelty Across Abya Yala: A Move With Otherwise Present-Futurities - Romina Stephanie Peña-Pincheira, Gustavus Adolphus College; Alexandra Allweiss, Michigan State University

• Knowledges From the South: Reflections on Writing Academically - Ana Luisa Muñoz, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Andrea Lira, Teachers College, Columbia University; Elisa Loncon, Universidad de Santiago de Chile

• Inter-Epistemic Dialogues in Colombia's Cultural Explosion: Vivir Sabroso and "Community Pots" as Alternative Pedagogies - Olga Sorzano

• Onto-Epistemic Paradigm of the Countryside and Social Theory: What Do Popular Movements of Latin America and the Caribbean Teach Us? - Lia Pinheiro Barbosa

Discussant

• Ana Carolina Diaz Beltran, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley