Деколонијални обрт и политике епистемичког раздвајања
Decolonial Turn and Politics of Epistemic Delinking

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I have analysed paradigm shift introduced by decolonial turn in theoretical, geo-political and epistemological understanding of contemporary power relations, as well as problems of colonial difference, geopolitics of knowledge and racialization. I have argued that radical epistemic delinking has key role in liberation from the Colonial Matrix of Power and change in the existing global power relations which are based in the colonialism and maintained through exploitation, expropriation and construction of the (racial) Other. Those are the power relations render certain bodies and spaces as (epistemologically) irrelevant. In order to discuss possible models of struggle against such condition, firstly I have addressed the relation between de- colonial theories and postcolonial studies, arguing that decolonial positions are both historicising and re- politicising the postcolonial theory. In that context I have analysed Anibal Qiano’s concept of the Colonial Matrix of Power and colonialism as a perfect environment for the contemporary global capitalism. Then I have offered a historical theoretical analyses of decolonial turn and its implications in the Western and non- Western academia, as well as the role of the “shifting geography of reason” (Nelson Maldonado- Torres) in decolonizing knowledge. In my central argument I have focused on the epistemic delinking and political implications of decolonial turn. With reference to Grada Killomba I have argued for the struggle against epistemic violence through decolonizing knowledge. Decolonising knowledge requires delinking form Eurocentric model of knowledge production and radical dismantling the existing hierarchies among different knowledges. It requires recognising “Other epistemologies” and “Other knowledges” as well as liberation from Western disciplinary and methodological limitations. One of the main goals of decolonial project is deinking from the Colonial Matrix of Power. However, delinking is not required only in the areas of economy and politics but also in the field of epistemology.

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