Del extractivismo económico al extractivismo epistémico y ontológico

Abstract

From an decolonial approach this article recovers the extractivism concept through a critical review of the practices of capitalism and colonialism, both inherent andoriginating from the same root: the Western-centric thinking. Mutations of economic extractivism in its global expansion are evident in this text, in the described forms of cognitive pillage (epistemic) and constriction of existence (ontology), and also in the environmental disaster that have been caused by the accelerated uptake of resources and raw materials, as well as the increasingly violent impositions, armed and genocide, of that colonial capitalism, especially in the Americas. The article, from the voice of the victims, offers alternatives and paradigms based on the criticism of those epistemicides practices and indigenous resistance to non-being.