Knowledge for what ? Knowledge for whom ? Reflections on college and geopolitics of hegemonic knowledge

Abstract

In this article the author explores within two hypothesis the Essentials sense about what do we when he makes some questions like: for who and for what we create and recreate?, which values and possibilities of future are been feed weaked? The first hypothesis is the one refers to coloniality about knowledge, it means, the knowledge character of social sciences and humanities, that resides an eurocentrical vision is articuled to domain colonial and new colonial forms, and play san Essentials paper on imperial/new colonial domain actuality. The second one affirms that the worst conclusion we could arised, through the critic of postcolonial studies up to hegemonic knowledges, is that we are immerse in conceptual prisons without any possibilities of salvation. After some other considerations to give sense to those questions above, the author explains the perversous globalization effects on the world, particullary on the south and he argues about social paper inside Latin-American universities.