decoloniality

The Challenge of Broadening the Ontological-Political: From the Paradogma of a Good Life Towards the Bio-Paradigm of Good Lives

Carlos Andrés Duque Acosta, Unicatólica, Colombia

Tags: decoloniality, deconstruction, good life, ontological turn, political ontology, transmodernity

From Modern Society to Life Community: An Agenda for a Decolonial Transmodern and Post-Western Philosophy

Katya Colmenares Lizárraga, Instituto Nacional de Formación Política de Morena, México

Tags: community of life, decoloniality, Latin America, Modernity, philosophy

On Black Marxist Decoloniality

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Universität Bayreuth, Deutschland
Morgan Ndlovu, University of South Africa

Tags: Black Marxist decoloniality, decoloniality, decolonization, Democratic Marxism

Colonial Connections

Breny Mendoza, California State University, Northridge, USA

Tags: anglosphere, ascent of the West, coloniality of gender, decoloniality, Hispanosphere, Iberianism, post colonialism

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

José Romero Losacco, Centro de Estudios de las Transformaciones Sociales (IVIC), Venezuela

Tags: coloniality, decoloniality, global history, Modernity, world-systems

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

José Romero Losacco, Centro de Estudios de las Transformaciones Sociales (IVIC), Venezuela

Tags: coloniality, decoloniality, global history, Modernity, world-systems

The Decolonial in Édouard Glissant’s The Antillean Discourse

Fernando Limeres Novoa, O Itsmo Clacso, Argentina

Tags: Antilleanity, colonialism, decoloniality, discourse

«We are people with free and collective self-determination» identitarian-organizational claims among Chuschagastas and Tolombón people

Macarena del Pilar Manzanelli, Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, Argentina

Tags: colonialist rationality, decoloniality, Diaguita people-nation, multicultural governmentality

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

Tags: critical animal studies, critical theory, decoloniality

De-colonizing Knowledge and Practice: Dialogic Encounter Between the Latin American Modernity/ Coloniality/Decoloniality Research Program and Actor Network Theory

Elena Yehia yehia@email.unc.edu University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA) Abstract: This paper seeks to establish a conversation between two novel frameworks for the critical analysis of modernity: actor-network theory, and the Latin American Modernity/ Coloniality/ Decoloniality perspective. In addition, this paper examines the remaining problems within both frameworks from the perspective of a decolonial […]

Tags: actor-network theory, anthropology of modernity, decoloniality, modernity/coloniality

Reviewing Fragments of the Latin American Conceptual “Archive” at the End of the 20th Century

Zulma Palermo palermo@unsa.edu.ar Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina Abstract: The proposal of decolonial thought requires the critical generation of a genealogy detached from colonial power. In this search, the article proposes an excursion through some of the circulating explanatory categories of the Latin American academic discourse at the moment of the emergence of paradigmatic changes […]

Tags: decoloniality, heterogeneity, hybridity, post-occidentalism, transculturation

Interculturality, Plurinationality and Decoloniality: Political-Epistemic Insurgences to Refound the State

Catherine Walsh cwalsh@uasb.edu.ec Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador Abstract: Nobody denies that in the current times, South America is living through changes, innovations and historical ruptures. Here we are interested in those innovations and ruptures; the ones that signal and profile new sociopolitical and epistemic formations, constructions and articulations that are the result and part […]

Tags: decoloniality, interculturality, plurinationality

(Inter)cultural studies on a decolonial note

Catherine Walsh cwalsh@uasb.edu.ec Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador Abstract: “Cultural studies” in Latin America make part of a naming policy manifested on legacies and frequently mapped as a whole, hiding or overlooking differences within themselves. This paper looks at the source of cultural studies in Latin America in general, and at the Quito Simón Bolívar […]

Tags: cultural studies, decoloniality, interculturality, political-intellectual project

Indigenous Homosexualities and Decoloniality —Some Reflections Based on Two-Spirit Criticism

Abstract: Our contribution in this article lies on gathering and analysing literature on indigenous homosexualities in Brazil, seeking to identify research potential in the light both of literature available on queer theory, and the two-spirit-approach authors and concepts, such as decoloniality and coloniality of gender. As we will see, there are several possibilities in terms […]

Tags: coloniality of gender, decoloniality, indigenous sexualities

Interculturality and Decoloniality

Abstract: This paper intends to explain the development of cultural relations, considering it cannot be understood from a social darwinism approach. Interculturality is shown to be a stage in such cultural development, and to be ephemeral and seldom actualized from a historical perspective, as it becomes a passage to transculturality. Also, we intend to prove […]

Tags: assimilation, decoloniality, interculturality, pluridiversity

The “Dark Side” of the Interculturality-Decoloniality Project —Some Critique Notes for a Discussion

Abstract: This paper intends to establish a critical dialogue with Catherine Walsh’s proposal for interculturality-decoloniality, which was developed within the framework of the modernity/coloniality project. Taking as the object of analysis and discussion the main arguments this author provides in situations of inequality in the Americas, their most fertile aspects are exhibited, along with theoretical-political […]

Tags: alterity, Catherine Walsh, decoloniality, interculturality

Islamic Feminism, Intersectionality and Decoloniality

Abstract: This paper argues that intersectionality provides Islamic feminism with a useful approach to understanding the lived experiences of Muslim women. In order to become truly emancipatory, however, intersectionality should be combined with a decolonial approach. Though de-centering the secular liberal ontology of mainstream western feminism and calling for a critical analysis of the global […]

Tags: decoloniality, feminism, Gender, intersectionality, Islamic feminism