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SANTIAGO JIMENEZ, María Evelinda. Knowledge dialogues for the generation of a technoscience with socioecologial adequacy. Rev. de Inv. Educ. [online]. 2012, vol.5, n.3, pp.95-113. ISSN 1997-4043.

The Amerindian communities have lived through a series of colonization in the different historie episodes, which have subjugated their understanding of complexity and imposed uniformity on them. The most evident forms of colonizad onhave beenreligious and cultural; nevertheless, with the latter also carne a technological colonization that captured achievements of the knowledge developed in everyday life and patented them as artifaets or as "modernized" knowledge, recreated for dominant culture without any intention of sharing the benefits with the collectivity that brought forth this knowledge. The result is a knowledge-product to be consumed instead of being discussed or interrogated. The impacts caused by the technological disasters, however, indicate the necessity to construct a new and different technoscientific vision that is thought of with urban and rural society, not for it. In this sense, there are great empty spaces that invite us to create technoscientific alternatives based in the dialogues of experts and society, thus assuring the quality of the artifacts and systems through a shared valuation (Funtowicz y Ravetz, 2000). In this dialogue, the social actors participate in an active manner not only in the design, execution and assurance, but also in the decision-making process and in the political dialogues about their use or disposal. This document discusses value-neutrality of the technological artifacts and suggests alliances between tradition and modern knowledge systems in order to catalyze just exchanges, articulated by technological systems that are adequate in a social and ecological sense.

Palabras clave : Knowledge alliances; relations of exchange; ethics; value-neutrality; technical systems; sense discrimination.

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