Western academic tradition in ecosystem study: Lake Pátzcuaro as an example of inefficiency and epistemic racismo

Abstract

The present ecosystemic case study centered on lake Patzcuaro deals with -environmental, political, economic, and social- interlinked aspects. The scientific version of reality from the positivist paradigm overvalues the “hard data” obtained in facilities far from the historical and social context of indigenous communities. The gain in “objectivity” from an “experts” view, bears implicit the cost of practical inefficacy to revert the human impact on the lacustrine environment.