Colonialism, knowledge, and epistemic boundaries

Some hypotheses by way of provocation (or “some provocations by way of hypothesis”)

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https://doi.org/10.29327/233099.17.2-4

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Hegemonia epistêmica, Fronteiras, Anticolonialismo

Abstract

By providing a general overview of ideas relating academic colonialism to the potential of conducting research in regions located on the periphery of the hegemonic system of (re)production of knowledge, this text aims to provoke reflections on the role of these spaces in the power dynamics of academia.

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Estevão Estevão Rafael Fernandes, Universidade Federal de Rondônia

CNPq Research Productivity Fellow (Category C) and Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rondônia (UNIR), with postdoctoral studies at Brown University (USA) and a doctorate in Comparative Studies on the Americas (UnB), including a sandwich period at Duke University under the supervision of Walter Mignolo. His career is marked by interdisciplinary articulations and international collaborations, working at the frontiers between decolonial anthropology, indigenous ethnology, dissident sexualities, and human rights in the Amazon. He has published books such as *Gay Indians in Brazil* (Springer) and *Decolonizing Sexualities* (Editora UnB), as well as chapters and articles in Brazil, the United States, Canada, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Spain, Poland, and France. He coordinates projects on transplants among indigenous peoples, public policies, and epistemic justice in the Pan-Amazon region, funded by CNPq and with institutional partnerships in Brazil and abroad. He was an elected member of the Scientific Council of the Brazilian Anthropological Association (2021-2023), is the Regional Secretary of the SBPC in Rondônia, a Collaborating Researcher at Fiocruz-Rondônia, and co-editor of the journal Novos Debates (ABA). Internationally, he coordinates the Working Group on Dissident and Undisciplined Anthropologies of the Latin American Anthropological Association (ALA) and is a member of the Task Force on Indigenous Psychology (Division 32, American Psychological Association) and the panel of reviewers of the Wenner-Gren Foundation. He has interests and experience in indigenous ethnology in the Amazon (especially Jê peoples), interethnic contact, coloniality, non-hegemonic sexualities among indigenous peoples, undisciplined and dissident anthropologies in Latin America, and transplantation involving indigenous people. Her theoretical and political work articulates decoloniality, queer studies, and epistemic justice in Latin American contexts, with a focus on the Amazon.

Fabiano Gontijo, Universidade Federal do Pará

Anthropologist, PhD in Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France (2000). Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology at the Federal University of Pará. CNPq Research Productivity Fellow.

Vico Melo, Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira

PhD in Post-Colonialism and Global Citizenship from the University of Coimbra (2016). Professor at the Institute of Humanities and Letters of UNILAB.

Michel Justamand, Universidade Federal do Amazonas

Anthropologist, PhD in Social Sciences (Anthropology) from PUC-SP (2007). Professor of Anthropology at UFAM in Benjamin Constant.

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Published

2018-06-21

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ESTEVÃO RAFAEL FERNANDES, E.; GONTIJO, F.; MELO, V.; JUSTAMAND, M. Colonialism, knowledge, and epistemic boundaries: Some hypotheses by way of provocation (or “some provocations by way of hypothesis”). Somanlu: Journal of Amazonian Studies, Manaus, v. 17, n. 2, p. 80–86, 2018. DOI: 10.29327/233099.17.2-4. Disponível em: //www.periodicos.ufam.edu.br/index.php/somanlu/article/view/4573. Acesso em: 8 dec. 2025.

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2017)

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