TY - JOUR
AU - Grosfoguel, Ramón
AB - Ramo ´ n Grosfoguel Beyond political-economy paradigms In October 1998, there was a conference/dialogue at Duke University between the South Asian Subaltern Studies Group and the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group. The dialogue initiated in this conference eventually resulted in the publication of several issues of the journal NEPANTLA. However, this conference was the last time the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group met before their split. Among the many reasons and debates that produced this split, there are two that I would like to stress. The Latin American Subaltern Studies Group composed primarily by Latinamericanist scholars in the USA. Despite their attempt at producing a radical and alternative knowledge, they reproduced the epistemic schema of Area Studies in the United States. With a few exceptions, they produced studies about the subaltern rather than studies with and from a subaltern perspective. Like the imperial epistemology of Area Studies, theory was still located in the North while the subjects to be studied are located in the South. This colonial epistemology was crucial to my dissatisfaction with the project. As a Puerto Rican in the United States, I was dissatisfied with the epistemic consequences of the knowledge produced by this Latinamericanist group. 
TI - THE EPISTEMIC DECOLONIAL TURN
JF - Cultural Studies
DO - 10.1080/09502380601162514
DA - 2007-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/the-epistemic-decolonial-turn-nrLf4BLStc
SP - 211
EP - 223
VL - 21
IS - 2-3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -