Know from the South.

Abstract

For many centuries, knowledge has been seized by western European capitalist thought, without allowing other ways of thinking and conceiving knowledge. Eurocentrism, as a colonial attitude towards knowledge, has been a barrier in Latin American thought. It is for this reason, the prevailing need to maintain a constant reflection on an emerging and growing epistemology from our America. In this text some reflections of the author Boaventura de Sousa Santos will be taken, taking as a starting point his book "Knowing from the south", and all its implications in the current epistemological context. Later, it is pointed out how, in Venezuela, these prevailing changes in knowledge have been launched, new practices and ways of conceiving social reality, have been, for some years, a conscious practice in the political, social, cultural and educational fields.