Conocimientos Etnoecológicos, Diálogo de Saberes y Violencia Epistémica

Abstract

This paper addresses the topic of epistemic violence in order to identify their origins, shapes, operating mechanisms and their link with the Modernity project. Similarly, in the context of coloniality of nature, considers the intercultural dialogue of knowledge as an opportunity to build an epistemology of the South, with and based on biocultural memory. Finally, the emphasis is placed on a pemon narrative to interpret the cultural collective processes of historical, social and cultural construction of indigenous territories, particularly territoriality as a category of analysis, to identify an example of epistemicide that dismantled a territorial and cultural system, by physical intervention by the State territory under the concept of agrarian reform.