In the 21st century, historic relations of power continue to shape the epistemic status of nations. Epistemologies of the North Atlantic consistently constitute the bases of institutionally valued scholarship. Indeed, control over the narrative of science has been constitutive of the discourse of modernity and North Atlantic intellectual hegemony. The premise of this article rests on the assertion that to effectively study life in the 21st century, we must abandon all notions of epistemic innocence. This analysis begins with the broad considerations of coloniality, modernity, and epistemology and takes up the specific mandates of formalization and interpretation that define North Atlantic epistemologies. It then considers the importance of critical rationalities, social epistemologies, and the need to robustly de-center research paradigms originating in the North Atlantic.
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