New epistemological paradigms: human and non-human actors in the expansion of social experiences

Abstract

We tested the operationalization of the Actor-Network Theory, based on Bruno Latour works, in a debate with Ecology of Knowledge by Boaventura Santos, thinking about new epistemological paradigms. In recognition of the participation of non-human in the social sphere, we incorporated this element into the reading of an epistemology of the South in particular, in this case, the Krenak indigenous group. Anchored in the way these people weave their interpretations of the world around them, this led us to see an expansion of social experiences, the result of the interaction between human and non-human factors in the revelation and emergence of knowledge arising from this conceptual amalgam.