Epistemology of consequences and intercultural pedagogy in the postcolonial perspective of Boaventura de Sousa Santos ; Epistemología de las consecuencias y pedagogía intercultural en la perspectiva postcolonial de Boaventura de Sousa Santos ; Épistémologie des conséquences et pédagogie interculturelle dans la perspective postcoloniale de Boaventura de Sousa Santos ; Epistemologia delle conseguenze e pedagogia interculturale nella prospettiva postcoloniale di Boaventura de Sousa Santos

The article discusses the postcolonial perspective outlined in the works of Boaventura de Sousa Santos. In his Epistemologies of the South, he brings out the fundamental characteristic of modern Western thought in its hegemonic, dominant, monopolistic sense that, by producing disjunctions, dichotomies, and reductionisms, operates a kind of domination, not always clearly recognizable, in every sphere of life. On the terrain of justice, a close conjunction is delineated between the global cognitive model, cloaked and sustained by a form of universalism that is self-legitimizing, and that of social justice in which everything on the wrong side of the true/false demarcation line (behaviors, traditions, knowledge) is identified with that which is disqualified with respect to the validity of knowledge; it is considered illegal, excluded from law, transfiguring itself into a kind of universal one-sidedness. Although with due differences, Santos compares the logic behind the epistemology of colonial movements to that which characterizes the postcolonial and neoliberal globalized world. On the terrain of intercultural pedagogy, the perspective identified by Santos makes a paradigmatic contribution that has inevitable implications on the field of intercultural education. ; L’articolo affronta il tema della prospettiva postcoloniale delineata negli scritti di Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Nel suo Epistemologie del Sud, lo studioso portoghese delinea la caratteristica fondamentale del pensiero moderno occidentale nella sua accezione egemonica, dominante, monopolistica che, producendo disgiunzioni, dicotomie, riduzionismi, opera una sorta di dominio, non sempre chiaramente riconoscibile, in ogni sfera della vita. Sul terreno della giustizia viene delineata una stretta congiunzione tra il modello cognitivo globale, ammantato e sorretto da una forma di universalismo che si auto-legittima, e quello della giustizia sociale in cui tutto ciò che si trova dalla parte sbagliata della linea di demarcazione vero/falso (comportamenti, ...