A COLONIALIDADE DO SABER

This article rescues the trajectory of paradigms and the rationality of science to understand how the coloniality of knowledge was constituted. Identifying this coloniality, in turn, gives visibility to forming a totality that results in the exclusion and silencing of peripheral knowledge in the construction of so-called scientific knowledge. Thus, it is problematized how modern scientific rationality and the relationship of coloniality of knowledge resulting from it perpetuated its marks and limited how legal knowledge was produced. In this way, the research aims to demonstrate how scientific rationality was projected as a totality and played a structuring role in the coloniality/modernity of knowledge, contributing to excluding all forms of heterogeneous knowledge on the margins of the Eurocentric reference standard. Finally, the work points to the decolonial proposal as an epistemological alternative so that legal studies can produce new legitimate theoretical options consistent with the socio-historical reality of Brazil. The present work adopts a hybrid, deductive, and decolonial method to arrive at a border epistemology or inter-epistemology.