Voces y Saberes: towards a decolonized university

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University, Eurocentrism, epistemic colonialism, decolonisation, student movement

Abstract

Decolonizing knowledge is an act of resistance; a call to reexamine who builds the stories we tell. This text pretends to problematize the construction of a hegemonic knowledge production model of Eurocentric and neocolonial character in westernized universities. And from there narrate the experience of a group of students from the Political Science and Sociology faculty in the Complutense University of Madrid, that seek to challenge the epistemic colonialism in their faculty. All in attempt to take on the collective responsibility of imagining and building a more critical and transversal public university. That’s how the project “Voces y Saberes: hacia una universidad descolonizada” (Voices and knowledges: towards a decolonized university) is born, looking to gather and voice different names, quotes, work and contributions from a diversity of racialized and non-western authors. Voices and knowledges that originate from within and outside academia, that have been historically under-represented in college education and hegemonic social sciences.

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Published

2025-06-20

How to Cite

García García, A. (2025). Voces y Saberes: towards a decolonized university. Encrucijadas. Revista Crítica De Ciencias Sociales, 25(1), b2502. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/encrucijadas/article/view/110660