Bruno Latour and decolonial ecology

a possible dialogue?

Abstract

Considering the emerging debates involving ecology, which emphasizes the need to bring the ecological debate as an element that crosses the analysis of contemporary realities, the present work intends to analyze how different epistemologies address this issue, reinventing the ways of perceiving knowledge, its function in reality, its constitution conditions and the actors involved in everyday reality. Starting from the work of Bruno Latour and several authors who can be thought of as sharing a decolonial ecological epistemology, it reflects on whether the ecological proposal in the Human and Social Sciences can be thought of from a common epistemology, or if the differences due to tradition of local thinking make it impossible to come up with a common proposal for the production of knowledge. It is noticed that, while the decentralization of human agents is a relevant common point, there are limits in the debates about politics and elements that should add to the ecological critique.