The place of ordinary knowledge: in the labyrinth of power and science

Abstract

The debates and tensions around traditional research are permanent in university spaces and research centers; however, they are mainly manifested outside these traditional places of thought. Currently, the experiences of resistance within the academy are limited, evident, but very necessary to co-break the universal and enlightened endogenism that has crowned the academy of our time. A tense relationship begins to coexist in the territory of knowledge: issues such as the way in which it is being constructed, or from what kind of knowledge reality is being defined, are cross-sectional debates that are addressed in this work. This article proposes a critical debate about the place ordinary knowledge occupies in the framework of hegemonic power and the social sciences. We reflect on the game of power, resistance and knowledge; there where research, knowledge or the ecology of knowledge play a leading role, fiercely disputing the different territories of meanings.