Towards a Critical Epistemology Grounded in Territory
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This article proposes a critical epistemology grounded in territory as a response to the depoliticization of academic knowledge and the dominance of instrumental reason. Drawing on the foundations of Critical Theory —the unity of theory and praxis, materialist dialectics, and immanent critique— and engaging with intersectional perspectives and situated epistemologies, the need is posed to rethink the links between knowledge, power, and space. The article identifies six key dimensions for a territorialized epistemology: the recognition of contextual specificity, the transformation of social structures, the intersectionality of struggles, the participatory production of knowledge, resistance to the commodification of culture, and the questioning of global epistemic hegemony.
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