DFTP - Conclusion 223-4

“Can academic knowledge be made less hierarchical and elitist? In the Latin American decolonial theory grammar, this is known as epistemic decolonization. Epistemic decolonization involves critically assessing “which concepts are we moved by and how we move those concepts and theories that are presupposed in the decisions that affect us day in and day out” (P. Botero 2013, 44). Within this perspective—aptly called “collective research and action”—“the communities are an integral part of knowledge as researchers, and the researchers are part of the collective doing” (44).22