Epistemic Obdience, Independent Thought And De-Colonial Freedom Analysis

In Walter Mignolo’s reading “Epistemic Obdience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom” he says “decolonialty is called a “programmatic” of delinking from contemporary legacies of coloniality.” He says, it is a “response to needs unmet by the modern Rightist or Leftist government.” I think what he means by Epistemic Obdience is that, it is the decolonial way of thinking which recognizes and implements reason, which eliminates the strong tendency to think that Western European way of thinking and belieing are in fact a generalize way of thinking which in fact is a universal way of thinking. He becomes aware of the effects colnality on being, body and knowledge. In Mignolo’s readings he talk about how taking a detour around what he considers …show more content…
Her belief of epistemology is a commitment in regards to when a person gives you an account of who they actually are, you must believe them and become subjective to the things they believe are the norm. I take that to mean that in order to be subjective of what the person shows you, you must recognize that within relationships is an immense amount of powwer and that those relationships of power are directed through language. Also that to realize that each person has power within themselvs whether theyre male, female, gay, or straight. Althaus-Reid speaks a lot on queer theology, feminist theology and liberation theology. She tends to utilize a sort of queer methodology which tends to open up the possibility of queer emodimen in light of a Christ who is equally fluid and transgressive. This differs from Mignolo who says “Such foundation legitmizes the assumptions and claims that knowledge was beyond bodies and places and that Christian theology and secular philosophy and science were the limis of knowledge-making beyond and besides which all knowledge was lacking: folklore, myth, traditional knowledge, were invented to legitimize imperial epistemology.” Where as Althaus-Reid talks about the indecent exposures: excessive sex and the crisis of theological