https://doi.org/10.25058/issn.2011-2742

decolonial thought

The decolonial option: detachment and opening – a manifest and a case study

Walter D. Mignolo walter.mignolo@duke.edu Duke University, Durham, USA Abstract: The decolonial option in politics and in epistemology was the direct consequence of the imperial/colonial invasion, first in Anahuac and Tawantinsuyu, and since the middle of the XVIII century in different spaces of the Islamic world (i.e. the British colonization of Hindu-Muslim India, the French colonization […]

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Politics, Empire and Imperialism: A Critical Enquiry of the Letters of Relation by Hernán Cortés

Luis Adrian Mora caellum@gmail.com Universidad de Costa Rica Abstract: This paper analyzes —through the concepts of political philosophy and decolonial thought— Hernán Cortés’ figure and Letters of relation. I intend to examine how the notions of “empire” and “imperialism” appear on Cortés’ thought and how those notions are a first sketch of modern politics in […]

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