ABSTRACT
As a result of dialogues established for some time now, this interview aims to contribute to broaden the horizons of both research in Applied Linguistics in Brazil and research based on critical and decolonial scholarships. These perspectives question modernity/coloniality, as well as notions of progress, development, truth, certainty, and education, which are based on a separability that privileges the human being over all other beings. Building on this, Professor Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, who holds a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change, invites us to take a step back, but not to see the “real” scenario and analyze the consequences of globalization. Instead, the invitation is to try to understand the historical and systemic patterns of reproduction of inequalities and thus to envision or even create other possibilities for coexistence on the planet. The interview, then, positions Applied Linguistics in a broad universe that includes our ontoepistemological bases in the perception of what it means to build knowledge and to do science in a process of expanding the possibilities of reading oneself, the other, and the world.
Keywords:
modernity/coloniality; interruption; alternative futures; Indigenous cosmologies; visceral responsibility