(How) Can “I” listen to the voices emerging from Comunidad de Solentiname? (Researcher’s Locus in Approaching the Other “Other”)

“Comunidad de Solentiname” was one of the main Ecclesial Base Communities (CEBs) that played a significant role, in both cultural-symbolic and politico-military terms, during the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua (1960-1979). In my perception and interpretation, I shall deal with the theoretical-methodological implications of the testimonies-artistic works of this revolutionary Christian community. How can a person from far away India listen to and interact with the voices from Solentiname, Nicaragua, and produce “scientific” knowledge about the same in a context where the very framework (terms, words, categories, concepts, methodologies, etc.) of the production of that knowledge, emanates from the processes of colonization/otherization/domination of the non-western? The point of discussion is the ambivalent tension between the “subject” and the “object” of the research, localized on the exteriority (the two “Others” are relatively different but not distinct) to the modern-colonial scientific paradigm, whose basic research framework must shape the process of research. Subsequently, it discusses a useful methodological-theoretical praxis of “Non-negligence”—of Buddhist soteriological origins—in interaction with the works of decolonial studies and, also with the concepts of reflexivity and epistemological vigilance debated in recent developments in social sciences, seeking to engage in a conversation by way of a pluriversal translation.