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Análisis Político

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BAQUERO, Sergio Angel; CAICEDO ORTIZ, Julián Andrés  and  RICO NOGUERA, Juan Carlos. COLONIALITY OF KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES: A METODOLOGY TO APREHEND THE COLONIZED IMAGINARIES. anal.polit. [online]. 2015, vol.28, n.85, pp.76-92. ISSN 0121-4705.  https://doi.org/10.15446/anpol.v28n85.56248.

The purpose of this article is, first of all, building a methodological tool that achieves grasp of articles or written productions of the social sciences the coloniality of knowledge present in many of them. Specifically, this article examines the reproduction of colonial knowledge in political theory distributed by the leading academic journals in political science in Colombia. The method used to achieve colonized unveil such knowledge is, first, recognition of the type of political theory being tested, and secondly, the analysis of these texts from modern concepts of otherness and posabismal thought. The information in this exercise appears summarized in tables showing the reproduction of the modern / colonial knowledge in the articles discussed. The results presented in this paper is that, indeed, political theory in Colombia is co-opted by the coloniality of knowledge, thus inviting a critical review of the kind of social science that wants to occur.

Keywords : Coloniality of knowledge; social sciences; modernity alterity; posabyssal thinking.

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