Towards other ways of knowing from the subjects' know-how

Abstract

The objective of this contribution is to reflect on an ongoing research process that is based on a way of thinking that is centered on the subject. In this form of construction of knowledge defended by those who proclaim an investigation from below and from the south, epistemic thinking must prevail over the theoretical as a basis for thinking, categorizing and recategorizing, with a view to stop reproducing knowledge and creating it from the experience of the subjects. In this line of thought various perspectives / ways of research in the region were developed. In this case, we choose to take on the challenge of doing a subject-centered mode of research following the provocation of Mexican authors who refer their reflections to the anti-capitalist and anti-statist subject inspired by the Zapatista subject who has autonomy as a project and walks asking as a method (Sandoval and Alonso, 2015, Salcido and Sandoval, 2016; Sandoval 2016, 2018 and 2019). We as a team, from our here and now, will reflect in this writing on the possibilities and limitations of this way of thinking.