The Usmeka System of Thought

The ontological turn in humanities and social sciences exposed how the power structures supporting scientific knowledge production exclude non-Western relational knowledges as epistemologically invalid. Thus, responses to this exclusionary infrastructure range from anti-scientific using science validate indigenous knowledges. However, those overlook subaltern spiritualities they decolonise open epistemic emancipatory spaces. Based on ethnographic research, article describes Usmeka community Bogotá. While addressing a mid-level language dialogue with nature, it mobilises epistemological emancipation possibilities. analysis contributes understanding colonial subjects subvert inquiry tool of control.