Social theory and epistemological challenges in the geopolitics of knowledge

Significant epistemological turns have emerged in peripheral contexts of knowledge production, tensioning consolidated notions of "modernity" and "scientific reason". These turns have largely affected Social Theory, at first in the Indian and Anglo-Saxon academic universe, and hereafter in Latin America, when a critical re-reading of realities that have experienced colonization, slavery, ethnocide, sexism, and racism began to problematize the "dark side of modernity". This article intends to analyze how Contemporary Social Theory has deconstructed the idea of a monotopic, universal, and absolute modernity, and how this has broadened our horizon of understanding on subalternities and colonialities. The aim is to present criticisms regarding the production, circulation, and consumption of great narratives, by articulating such proposals with approaches that are suggesting a review of the well-known canons in Sociology, in order to indicate new epistemologies from other places of enunciation, talk, and agency.