imperialism

Latin Roots: Secular Theology and Occidental Imperial Formation

Peter Fitzpatrick peter.fitzpatrick@clickvision.co.uk University of London, Birkbeck College, UK Abstract: This article discusses the falling into obscurity of godly or political-theological figures of modern imperialism. Particularly, it defines the framework of said imperialism in the present theological language in the works of Francisco de Vitoria about the colonialization of the Americas. The operational adoption of […]

Relational ontology and social cartography. Towards an emancipating counter-mapping, or a counter-hegemonic delusion?

Ulrich Oslender, Florida International University, USA

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 […]

You, White people

Houria Bouteldja, Centro de Estudios para el Diálogo Mediterráneo, España