decolonial

Marx’ Approach and Turning Dialectics Upside Down 

Katya Colmenares, Instituto Nacional de Formación Política-Morena

Tags: analectics, approach, decolonial, transcendentality, transmodernity

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

Virginia Piña Cruz, Universidad de Jaén, España

Tags: Andalusia, coloniality, decolonial, female day laborer, feminism, land, women

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

Helios F. Garcés, Investigador independiente, España

Tags: coloniality, decolonial, feminism, islam, Modernity, racism

Claiming a kinship between Postcolonial and Decolonial Feminisms via Spivak and Rivera Cusicanqui

Kiran Asher, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Tags: decolonial, feminisms, postcolonial

On internal colonialism and subjectivity. Notes for a debate. Alejandro De Oto, Laura Catelli

Alejandro de Oto y Laura Catelli, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, CONICET, Argentina

Tags: decolonial, internal colonialism, post colonial, subjectivities

Racial Capitalism and Freedom Narratives: an approach to Cedric J. Robinson from Spanish state

Helios F. Garcés, investigador independiente, España

Tags: decolonial, marxism, narratives of freedom, political anti-racism, racial capitalism

Towards a Decolonial Transmodern Pluriversalism

Ramon Grosfoguel  grosfogu@berkeley.edu University of California – Berkeley, USA Abstract: This article discusses the concept of the Universal in the western philosophical tradition and proposes Other, decolonial ways to think about Uni-versality as Pluri-versality, based on the thinking of Aimé Cesaire, Enrique Dussel and the Zapatistas. The first part discusses the concept of “universal” from […]

Tags: Césaire, decolonial, pluriversalism, transmodernity, universalism, Zapatistas

Hermeneutics of Democracy: The Thought of Limits and the Colonial Difference

Walter Mignolo wmignolo@duke.edu Duke University, Durham, USA Abstract: History tells that Mahatma Gandhi was asked what he thought of civilization. Gandhi answered and said “civilization was a good idea”. The same can be said of “democracy”. This article proposes a decolonial lecture of the concept of “democracy” and suggests the incompatibility between democracy and capitalist […]

Tags: decolonial, democracy, growth economy, welfare economy

The concept of “racism” in Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon: theorizing from the being or the nonbeing zone?

Ramón Grosfoguel grosfogu@berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley, USA Abstract: This paper deals with the historic emergence of racism in the world-system and the definition of racism. It discusses by counterpointing Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon’s views on racism. This paper provides a discussion on the decolonial epistemic implications of Fanon’s theory on racism. Keywords: racism, […]

Tags: decolonial, essentialism, Gender, interseccionality, racism

Physionomy of Decolonial Metaphysics: The Damné, Identity Without a Narrative

Javier Franzé javier.franze@cps.ucm.es Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España Abstract: This paper aims to show the essentialism of Walter Mignolo’s reflection in The Idea of Latin America. One such essentialism does not consist of considering subaltern communities as pure or uncontaminated, nor all of its members (the damné) as endowed with some definite and ahistorical traits, […]

Tags: decolonial, epistemology, essentialism, identity, narration

Anthropocentric and Eurocentric Foundations of Contemporary Poverty and Communication Idea

Abstract: This paper reflects around the treatment given to the concepts of poverty and communication throughout the last 60 years by a number of theories of development existing in the Latin American region within the social sciences. Particularly, we will focus our discussion on how those concepts have inherited an Eurocentric and anthropocentric global power […]

Tags: communication, decolonial, development., nature, poverty

Muslim women’s veil (hijab): between colonialist ideology and Islamic discourse: a decolonial view

Abstract: The debate on Muslim women’s veil (hijab) has always been central in contemporary feminist discussion, and therefore it embodies the core of the conflict between two antinomic views: the one in neo-orientalist and hegemonic neo-western discourse, and a certain majoritarian traditionalist Islamic discourse. For some, it embodies patriarchal oppression while for others it is […]

Tags: Body, colonial ideology, decolonial, emancipation, Hijab, islam, Modernity, Orientalism, patriarchal oppression, Quran, veil, women

Decoloniality and politics of recognition among the Indigènes de la République

Roberto D. Hernandez, San Diego State University, USA

Tags: colonialism, decolonial, France, indigenous, postcolonial, recognition

Anti-romani/anti-gypsy racism and the decolonial choice

Helios F. Garcés, Grupo Kale Amengue, España

Tags: decolonial, internal colonialism, racism, Romophobia