ABSTRACT
In recent debates about hegemonic knowledge in the modern world, a number of basic assumptions have emerged that allow people to characterize the dominant conception of knowledge as Eurocentric. The perspective of Eurocentric knowledge is the central axis of a discourse that not only naturalizes but renders inevitable the increasingly intense polarization between a privileged minority and the world’s excluded, oppressed majorities. The view of liberal society as the natural, most advanced form of human experience has been an inseparable part of modern world history for the past three centuries. “Performance requirements” is the term used to describe a wide range of public policies that could curb in some way the full freedom of the investor. In accordance with the stipulations just listed, no country, region, or local community could legitimately establish criteria to direct or shape investment carried out within its jurisdiction in terms of its own goals.
