Deconstruction, coloniality and ubuntu

For the porosity of borders

Abstract

From the deconstruction, we revisit the critic, so often made, of the hierarchy between nature and culture, considering that, despite the criticisms, this hierarchy remains discursively affirmed. Differently, we seek to defend how much the borders between nature and culture are blurred and how the non-acceptance of this porosity among borders brings exclusionary effects on cultural practices. As culture is neither sealed nor limited to customs and geographic location, being a plural discursive flow impossible to be frozen, always différance, relationship and mutual constitution of meanings, we tried to think about the implications of this deconstructivist view of culture for a debate about colonial violence. We understand this violence as practiced by a philosophy and a policy that, in many moments, believes it can define and subjugate the other - the culture of the other -, affirming it as primitive, wild and of little complexity. Against to this posture of subjugating the other, we present the ubuntu philosophy. We conclude by pointing out possible implications of deconstruction to think about the legacy of this coloniality that speculates the meanings of school, curriculum and quality of education