Abstract
This text reflects on the alleged universality of knowledge, discussing the way Eurocentric explanations of the world end up guiding our academic production. It is assumed that epistemological coloniality, by designating those who have the right to produce theories, creates a series of nonexistences that ultimately lead to waste of experiences. Based on the concept of border thinking developed by the decolonial perspective, I discuss the work of the writer Carolina Maria de Jesus and the possibility of thinking about reality according to the wound opened by colonial difference. Through her narratives, Carolina allows us to comprehend that knowledge is generated from geopolitics that tries to exclude some voices and that, despite countless strategies for subalternation, those voices insist on resisting. This paper should thus serve to depart from epistemes and to produce “other” perspectives for the production of knowledge in social psychology.
Keywords:
Coloniality; Feminisms; Psychosocial Interventions; Carolina Maria de Jesus