Epistemological fractures: The decline of western paradigms. Beyond the current epistemic hegemony?

Abstract

ABSTRACTThousands of people are drowning in the Mediterranean and in the South Asia Seas. At the USA borders or elsewhere, at this time, hundreds are killed or pushed back against the principle of non-refoulement of the 1951 Geneva Convention. There is global warming and the devastation of our only planet, through the suicidal power we command in the Anthropocene. Meanwhile, the violence against women (in peace and war) persists. In order to overcome the current epistemological hegemony, we need new radical ideas about our sustainable world, at least about the global south(s), feminism and the Anthropocene. We need to think of a different choice of civilization, one that has not yet been tested, with less competition, less individualism and less national selfishness. Let’s insist upon the primacy of life as such over human life, over specism, in an alternative future where humans, and men at that, are not always in charge.