Modern/Colonial Imaginary, Epistemic Resistance and Youth Insurgency

Abstract

Starting from criticism made by postcolonial authors, this study refers to colonialism seen from construction of the Eurocentric imaginary as a phenomenon traversed by the thought of key modernity figures. Following a synthetic type of research, an analysis was made of how the geopolitics of knowledge become expressions of a power entrenched in colonialism, for which a bibliographic and documentary review was needed. Subsequently, the study reconstructs the analyzed categories into a scheme proposed to identify an alternative epistemology based on Andean thought and delineate a reading of youth insurgencies as other resistance practices. Finally, the paper argues that the relationship between epistemes and practices articulates a necessary counter-hegemonic path.