Reconectando natureza-cultura e tradicional-moderno na superação de uma crise civilizatória: pela decolonialidade do poder, saber e ser

Abstract

This paper aims to find out how and why modern science, guided by the naturalist ontology and western epistemology, in the context of modernity, have not been able to find adequate and efficient strategies to overcome the crises we live. Faced with the drastic consequences of anthropocentric arrogance and the insatiability of capital that establishes a limiting situation for the planet, we saw the possibility of this space-time as a context of great danger, but also as a great opportunity. In this sense, it is proposed a critique of the colonial conception of relationship with indigenous peoples and traditional populations and the use of natural resources as models of development that respond to a colonized imaginary. It is recognized that the diffusion and appreciation of traditional knowledge, in an attempt to promote the biocultural memory of the species, could be the passport for the survival, in the modern world, of the societies that produced it. For this, it is understood as essential to overcome the Great Dividers of nature and culture and traditional and modern present in modern western societies in order to reveal the coloniality of power, knowledge and being under which we are accustomed to relate to Otherness. In this way, this work aimed to highlight the problematic aspects in the representations of nature and culture and of traditional and modern problematizing the interests that make certain knowledge to be recognized as legitimate while others are not. Faced with the task of decoloniality of power, knowledge and being, indigenous peoples and traditional populations present themselves as central actors with criticisms that reach the ontological and epistemological foundations of modern cosmopolitics. Thus, the importance of the occupation of the western conceptual territories by these social groups as a native strategy of communication with the surrounding society in order to affirm their ancestral rights and knowledge as well as their fundamental contribution in overcoming the crises that threaten the planetary ecology and the survival of everyone on the planet.