critical theory

The Burden of the White Man or How to Decolonize Humanitarian Aid

Arantza Peralta

The Latin American Institute for Critical Animal Studies as a decolonial project

Iván Darío Ávila, Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Uniminuto e Instituto Latinoamericano de Estudios Críticos Animales – ILECA, Colombia

Neither Orientalism nor Occidentalism: Edward W. Said and Latin Americanism

Eduardo Mendieta emendieta@notes.cc.sunysb.edu Stony Brook University (USA) Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz Abstract: The article begins with a discussion of the methodological breakthrough made by Said in his magisterial Orientalism, which it is claimed also informed his subsequent works. He is defended against critics who impute on him with, and impugn him for, […]

Performative Theories of Identity and the Performativity of Theories

Claudia Briones cbriones@filo.uba.ar CONICET/Universidad de Buenos Aires Abstract: This article aims to review some knowledge derived from performative theories of identity to reflect on the performativity of the theories. Even though it is vital to critically examine the capacity of agency and materiality that carries scientific discourse – a discourse authorized by excellence, especially when […]