Intercultural knowledge production: against gender-based violence and towards epistemic justice

There is a growing consensus that the intersubjective, intercultural, and decolonial realms have become emerging sites of knowledge production. In fact, as Maldonado-Torres (2016, p. 25) writes: ‘Knowledge and understanding are fundamentally inter-subjective affairs’. As sites of knowledge production, intersubjectivity and interculturality open possibilities for inter-epistemic knowledge exchange where subjects and cultures interface. Thus, intercultural knowledge production should be grounded in ‘a radical claim for epistemic rights rather than cultural ones’ (Aman, 2017, p. 69). It is therefore vital not only to question existing intercultural and intersubjective modes of knowing but also to imagine creative new ways of knowing to ‘address radical questions of epistemic healing, political intelligibility and accountability’ (Yohannes, 2020, p. 216). Understood as a liminal realm in which intercultural communication and inter-epistemic encounters combine to create the conditions for decolonial possibilities of knowing and knowledge, interculturality is emerging as a ‘discipline’ for questioning, thinking, and engaging in intercultural research (Monceri, 2022).