Critical interculturality in the face of collapse

Towards new dimensions of knowledge and inter-territorial pedagogy

Abstract

This essay carries out some theoretical approaches to contemporarily problematize the concept of culture and its role in the socio-territorial development. The essay is divided in four subtopics. First, “reinvention of the culture concept” tries to create a theoretical reference to allow the renewal of cultural diversity discussions in opposition to what is defined as “emergent system of control over the life” which displaces capitalism. Here, the problem of the cultural relations is approached as “dimensions of knowledge” and proposes the problem of interculturality as “pluri-territoriality”. The second subtopic: “the critic interculturality against the new emerging orders,” tries to make a brief approximation about the deep transformations happening in the actual hegemonic dynamics and during the last decades. Using a minimal description of these processes, this work aims to clarify from a theoretical approach the “emergent system of control over the life,” that has been brewing through an intensive homogenization as a product of the epistemic and scientific capacities which are ruling the social relations. The third subtopic, “the critic intercultural philosophy against the emergent new order,” exposes the problem of pluri-territoriality as an anti-systemic epistemic alternative, not only for the theoretical work projection, but to create new resilience relations through the socio-territorial diversification promoted by interconnection networks between pluricultural experiences. As a conclusion, some basic elements are presented to begin a path “Toward an Intercultural Pedagogy” starting from an epistemic detachment (Mignolo W 2010:124) together with an anti-systemic theoretical project.