interculturality

Unresolved Transitions: Paths to Interculturality in the Integral System Toward Peace in Colombia

Laetitia Braconnier Moreno, Université Paris Nanterre / Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Óscar David Montero de la Rosa, Universidad del Magdalena, Colombia
John Edison Sabogal Venegas, Duke University, USA

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 […]

(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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Interculturality Ceaseless Apogee —Some Critical Reflections from Anthropology and Philosophy

Gonzalo Díaz Crovetto y Mario Samaniego, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile