Geopolitics of knowledge in Latin America: the construction of other historical sites

Abstract

The colonial power created overlapping and intersecting hierarchies and multiple global heterogeneous forms of domination and exploitation of indigenous peoples, creating world maps from Western discourses that established definitions and developmental and spatial representations based on subjective denial, violence and silencing of the myths, symbols, rituals, traditions and knowledge of native peoples. The Eurocentric cartographic practice as an expression of European colonial domination silence other forms of representation of space typical of indigenous peoples and its history. This silencing of populations requires the construction of maps night speaking from memory and history of these peoples.