coloniality

Santiago Castro-Gómez scastro@javeriana.edu.co Pontificia Universidad Javeriana/ Instituto Pensar (Colombia) Abstract: Contrary to most of the statements associated with postcolonial studies and to some versions of the modernity/coloniality perspective, this article argues for the relevance of a hierarchic theory of power, inspired by Foucault’s lesser commonly read Lessons in the College of France, to understand the […]

Tags: coloniality, Foucault, hierarchic theory, postcolonial studies, world-system

Decolonization and the Decolonial Turn

Nelson Maldonado-Torres nmt@berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley, USA Abstract: This article outlines two issues related to the decolonialization of the being and of knowledge. The first topic deals with the current validity of decolonialization, and the second one with the idea of a decolonial turn. This second topic entails the discussion about the idea of […]

Tags: coloniality, decolonial attitude, decolonial reason, decolonial turn, decolonialization, racism

A critic to bodily reason: Dussel and anti-Cartesian meditations

Diego A. Soto Morera, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

Tags: cartesianism, coloniality, corporeality, dualism, Dussel

The invention of racial democracy in Venezuela

Pablo Quintero pquintero@filo.uba.ar Universidad de Buenos Aires / CONICET, Argentina Abstract: This paper explores the formation of racial democracy myth in Venezuela, by analysing Venezuelan novel Doña Bárbara, by Rómulo Gallegos. Published for the first time in 1929, this novel is one of the foundational works both of the racial democracy myth and contemporary arrangements […]

Tags: coloniality, modernist literature, Modernity, racial democracy, Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuela

Passing through Quijano, saving Foucault. Protecting white identities and decolonization

Julia Suárez-Krabbe jskrabbe@ruc.dk juliakrabbe@ces.uc.pt Roskilde Universitet, Dinamarca Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Abstract: This paper addresses the debates linking Quijano’s theories (those of decoloniality) and Foucault’s. On one hand, it reaffirms the importance of those discussions in the Eurocentric academic sphere, and on the other hand, it argues that, in developing primarily within the academic sphere, they […]

Tags: colonial politics of being, coloniality, decolonization, identity, non-being

Spectral interventions (or variations on sieging)

Leticia Katzer Conicet-IADIZA Centro Científico Tecnológico, Mendoza, Argentina Alejandro De Oto Conicet-Incihusa, Centro Científico Tecnológico, Mendoza, Argentina Abstract: Deconstruction has enthralled a significant portion of political thought and aroused a revival within epistemology. This essay aims to identify two key concepts in the subject / alterity relationship, namely, “ghost” and “specter”, in order to rethink […]

Tags: coloniality, ghosts, Modernity, ontology, specters

Towards an inter-epistemic and decolonial dialogue between Western and non-Western feminists

Tijana Limic, Universidad de Granada

Tags: coloniality, epistemicide, feminism, Modernity

coloniality

The Coloniality of Wage and Unpaid Work

Dogness: Colonial Traces and Whiteness in Multi-Species Dog-Human Relations

Women in Laborer’s Struggles in Andalucía. A Feminist Decolonial Approach

The World-System Beyond 1492: Modernity, Christianity, and Coloniality: Contributions for Global Histories of/from the South

The World-System Beyond 1492: Modernity, Christianity, and Coloniality: An Approach to the Decolonial Historiographic Turn

Thanatopolitics, Slavery, Colonial Capitalism, and Epistemic Racism in the Genocidal Invasion of the Americas

Decolonizing the Census. The Social Division of Social Sciences and the Locus of their Tools in Colonial Genealogy

Ethnography, Biopolitics, and Coloniality. Genealogies of Urban Precariousness in Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region

Caught Between the Zone of Being and Nonbeing. The Contemporary Economics of Cruelty

Destroying the Idols of Western Modernity: Sirin Adlbi Sibai’s Decolonial Islamic Thinking

The Colonial Analogy

Intersectionalities of masculinity, race and class: Notes for a notion of neocolonial masculinities

‘Worlds and Wisdoms Otherwise’. The Latin American Modernity/Coloniality Research Program

Michel Foucault and the Coloniality of Power

Decolonization and the Decolonial Turn

A critic to bodily reason: Dussel and anti-Cartesian meditations

The invention of racial democracy in Venezuela

Passing through Quijano, saving Foucault. Protecting white identities and decolonization

Spectral interventions (or variations on sieging)

Towards an inter-epistemic and decolonial dialogue between Western and non-Western feminists

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