Justice Against the Epistemicide. Towards a brief Critique of Modern Western Reason

Abstract

This paper address and dissects the contemporary footprints of Western Eurocentric Modernity which lead to the current global great regression, that needs to be contextualized within crisis of the yoke of Modern Western Eurocentric reason. In doing so, I will advance a critique of such reasoning –which is the matrix of the epistemicide–, unpack its theoretical and methodological despotism, and argue that the Western Cartesian Modernity model, as eugenic hegemonic matrix, with its arrogant claim to address global justice, is not just moribund, it is dead. Modernity, was/is a misleading dream, a finished game. In this context, I argue for the need to open up the theoretical and methodological canons, to go above and beyond Modern Western Eurocentric epistemological platforms, challenge the educational and curriculum Occidentosis and to think alternatively about alternatives to work methodologically towards social and cognitive, and intergenerational justice. I call educators to lead the just struggle against the educational and curriculum epistemicide by working within an itinerant educational curriculum theory and pedagogy of society, a peoples theory, thus championing non-relativist dialogues between the global North and South and within the North and South.