Coloniality of the natural world: imposition of technology and epistemic usurpation? Interculturality,development and re-existence

Abstract

This article questions the Eurocentric ideas of the natural world that were established by the modern/colonial project as economic rationality. It also inquires into the relationships between culturally diferentiated societies and the biological diversity of nature. As a result, it states the importance of not naturalizing the cultural relationship but understanding interculturality as a political, ethical and epistemic project in which education plays a fundamental role towards the transformation of paradigms and popular consciousness around development and nature.