Epistemological Decolonization through a Relational Knowledge-Making Model

This article argues for epistemic decolonization by developing a relational model of knowledge, which we locate within indigenous knowledges. We live in time ongoing global, coloniality, embedded and shaped colonial ideas practices. Epistemological requires taking nondominant knowledges their epistemes seriously to open up the possibility interrogating dismantling hegemony Western knowledge tradition. here ask two related questions: What are decolonial affordances knowledges? And how do these compare other contemporary critiques specifically those mounted posthumanism? In answer, develop three definitional senses with reference First, define relation they share dialectical origin at moment contact. Second, ontological axiological orientations. Third, relationality suggests trialectic space, rather than dialectic space. argue necessity an anticolonial framework, assigns priority people's perceptions ways knowing theorizing recurring relations (imperialistic) manifestations producing reproducing knowledge.