This line opens a space for non-Western and non-Anglocentric sources and systems of knowledge. It seeks to make visible those who produce it, their contributions, and content and serve as a platform to identify strategies that facilitate free access both, to said knowledge, and to that resulting from westernized systems of production, preservation, and compilation of knowledge.
The more we open ourselves to this knowledge and make it visible, the more people will know and benefit from it.
The standard practices of production, preservation, compilation, and distribution of knowledge in the world are marked by Western and Anglocentric definitions and concepts. These practices determine who are considered knowledge-producing subjects and institutions, who can contribute to collective knowledge, as well as what knowledge is considered legitimate and valid. Likewise, through the standardization of specific practices, the policies for the creation, assignment, and registration of knowledge, as well as its appropriate forms of communication and dissemination, are determined.
The thematic line of traditional knowledge seeks to open a space for the appearance of non-Western and non-Anglocentric sources and systems of knowledge, on the subjects that produce them and their specific local and global relevance, on their own themes as well as on possible avenues for promotion of free access both to said knowledge and to that resulting from westernized systems of production, preservation, and validation of knowledge.
Julio Gaitán
He is a lawyer, tenured professor at the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the Universidad del Rosario (Colombia). Doctor in Legal Sociology from the Universita Degli Studi Di Lecce, Italy; and Master in Public Law from the University of Barcelona, Spain.
He has more than 25 years of experience as a teacher and researcher. At the Universidad del Rosario, he has led the area of constitutional law and the doctorate in law, in addition to the classes he has been in charge of. He is one of the founding members of ISUR. He leads the line of work with the judicial branch about education, training, support, and advocacy projects developed with regional judges on issues such as human rights in digital environments.