epistemology

Dynamizing the Notion of Nomadism. Theoretical and Ethnographic Notes on an Unrecognized Territorial Model

Leticia Katzer, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo-Conicet, Argentina

Several Theoretical-Methodological Trends in Social Work. Results of a Social Context Reading in Academic Programs in the Caribbean and Central-Eastern Regions

Ana Yadira Barahona Rojas, José Roberto Calcetero Gutiérrez y Melba Yesmit Chaparro Madolnado, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia

Decolonizing Political-Economy and Post-Colonial Studies: Transmodernity, Border Thinking, and Global Coloniality

Ramón Grosfoguel grosfogu@berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley (USA) Abstract : This article discusses the epistemic implications of the de-colonial turn of the decolonization of the “global capitalism” concept, as it has been used in the paradigms of political economy and cultural studies. Other terms that are discussed include “colonization of power”, “border epistemologies” and “transmodernity” […]

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, […]

Decolonizing knowledge —Social intervention in a Mapuche context

Gianinna Muñoz Arce, Universidad Alberto Hurtado