20245603(en)/7 - Worldview and Its Colonial Dimension: The Persistence of Epystemic Racism and Its Ethnic-Racial Connotation in Ecuador
WORLDVIEW AND ITS COLONIAL DIMENSION: THE PERSISTENCE OF EPYSTEMIC RACISM AND ITS ETHNIC-RACIAL CONNOTATION IN ECUADOR
LA COSMOVISIÓN Y SU DIMENSIÓN COLONIAL: LA PERSISTENCIA DE RACISMO EPISTÉMICO Y SU CONNOTACIÓN ÉTNICO-RACIAL EN EL ECUADOR
Edison Auqui Calle y Lorena Cândido Fleury
Worldview is a concept widely employed by a multiplicity of social actors, mainly to claim ethnic difference. This article aims to analyze the implications of using the concept of worldview based on its mobilization by multiple actors in society, primarily academia and the state. It draws on a systematic analysis of information available on digital platforms, including articles, public policies, books, proposals, and data obtained from the Scopus database. The article presents worldview as a category used from cognitivist and constructivist approaches, which inherently contains various subjectivities related to the domain of ethnicity. It highlights certain hierarchical and normative precepts with ethnic-racial connotations that co-produce, categorize, and delegitimize the epistemes, ontologies, and subjects involved. Such grammar reveals, in its ontological nature, the persistence of a colonial stance and epistemic racism that often go unnoticed, contributing to the silencing of ethnic heterogeneity and its otherness.
