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The intention of this work is to interpret four alternative movements for rethinking the social sciences based on a liberating episteme from the South. In addition to re-thinking, this article also deals with recreating the other Latin American scientific socio-political logos from the viewpoint of intercultural philosophy. To achieve these goals, the alternatives are conceived as i) an epistemic project that allows for complex research and the trans-disciplinary training of researchers; ii) an ethical project that permits establishing public coexistence values and rights to peace between men and nature; iii) a political project that allows for developing intercultural states in favor of plurality for civic identities; and finally iv) an economic project based on criticism of techno-scientific consumerist production, that, at the same time, justifies the development of an economy of necessary goods. These days, when models of Cartesian rationality are in crisis, it is in Latin America where alternative praxes make it possible to discover those insurgent origins of emancipation in the face of decolonialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

If the pattern of scientific knowledge implies the epistemological platform of the western civilization model associated with the capitalist system, closely linked to situations of injustice against which social movements arise and act, what characteristics does wisdom assume consubstantiated with the interests in transforming society associated with those movements? The purpose of this essay is to describe some of the particularities that this “knowledge in movement” assumes. At the same time, the essay will try to sketch the tensions among these and determine certain conditionings of scientific knowledge, expressed in the canons that regulate social science publications. “Knowledge in movement” has two dimensions: one denounces and the other contributes epistemological “novelty.” They originate within and outside of academe from multiple patterns and become legitimate in the same transformation process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]