Genealogy

Racial Capitalism: The Nonobjetive Character of Capitalist Development

Cedric J. Robinson, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

“To make live and to let die”: Foucault on Racism

Eduardo Mendieta eduardo.mendieta@stonybrook.edu SUNY, Stony Brook (USA) Abstract: This article considers Foucault’s Collège de France seminar from 1975-6, entitled Il faut défendre la société, or Society must be Defended. The article does not aim to summarize the course, but rather to discern a constellation of radical departures in Foucault’s thinking. We focus on the severe […]

Language, discipline and progress: French language teaching in the Second University District in the Nueva Granada 1826-1850

Sandra Camelo scamelo@javeriana.edu.co Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Andrea Sánchez andreasanchez@javeriana.edu.co Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, France Abstract: This research tackles the discourse institutionalization of the French language teaching. Traditionally, power relations -underlying pedagogical practices and determining subjects’ relations in French language teaching institutions- have been neglected. The methodological approach to this problematic consists on two […]

(De)colonial symptoms: Grosfoguel as a reader to Foucault

Diego A. Soto Morera, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica