Latin America

Extractivism and territorial dispossession in rural Colombia: a decolonial commitment to Campesinas’ politics of place

Laura Rodríguez Castro, Deakin University, Australia

Tags: colombia, Decolonial feminisms, disposession, extractivism, Latin America, place, rurality

Debates Around Cultural and Epistemic Decolonization. Marxisms in Latin America

Tania Carranza, Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México —UACM—

Tags: decolonization, epistemologies of the South, historical subject, Latin America, Marxisms

Thinking Marx from Latin America? The Problem of Decolonizing Contemporary Critical Thought

Juan José Bautista Segales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Tags: critical thought, decolonization, Latin America, Marx

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

Toward Decolonizing Human Rights and Feminism

Zaki Habib Gómez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España

Tags: decolonial thinking, feminisms, human rights, Latin America, Middle East

Indigenous Cosmopolitics in the Andes: Conceptual Reflections beyond “Politics”

Marisol de la Cadena, University of California, Davis, USA

Tags: Andes, antimining movements, cosmopolitics, indigenous politics, Latin America, Nature-culture, pluriverse

Afrodescendant intellectuals: notes for a genealogy in Latin America

Elena Oliva, Universidad de Chile

Tags: afro studies, afrodescendants, intellectuals, Latin America

Afrodescendant studies in Latin America: racism and mestizaje

Peter Wade, University of Manchester, UK

Tags: Afro-Latin, blacks, Latin America, mestizaje, racial discrimination, racism

(Latin American) Post-Colonial Contributions to the Study of Social Movements

Juliana Flórez-Flórez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Tags: Coloniality. Social Movements, Latin America, Modernity

Ethnicity, multiculturalism and social policy in Latin America: Afro-Latin (and indigenous) populations

Peter Wade peter.wade@man.ac.uk Universidad de Manchester (UK) Abstract: The article first reviews evidence of the economic, political and social exclusion of Afro-descendent and indigenous groups in Latin America. Then it surveys the array of multiculturalist legal and political reforms that have taken place in the region in the last 15-20 years, before analyzing the various […]

Tags: Afro-descendent and indigenous groups, Latin America, multiculturalist legal and political reforms, Pacific region, social exclusion of ethnic minorities

Walter Mignolo and the Idea of Latin America – An Exchange of Opinions

Antonio Lastra antoniolastra@latorredelvirrey.es La Torre del Virrey. Revista de Estudios Culturales Abstract: This interview or exchange of opinions was born out of the necessity to extend the review of the Spanish edition of the book “La idea de America Latina” (The Idea of Latin America). As readers will advise, only reading the book is not […]

Tags: coloniality and decoloniality, Latin America, Modernity

Overlapping territorialities, sovereignty in dispute: empirical lessons from Latin America

John Agnew jagnew@geog.ucla.edu University of California, UCLA, USA Ulrich Oslender Ulrich.Oslender@ges.gla.ac.uk Florida International University, USA Abstract: Recent debates in political geography have questioned the Nation-state idealized sovereignty as rigidly linked to the notion of a transparent territoriality, clearly marked in space by stablished borders. Sovereignty has no need to assume this particular form. This paper […]

Tags: black communities, colombia, constitutional amendments, FARC, Latin America, Law 70, political geography, territorial rights

Trajectories of blackness: an open reading of the encounters that produce contingent definitions of lo negro in Latin America

Roosbelinda Cárdenas González rcardena@ucsc.edu University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Abstract: This article traces a genealogy of the concept of blackness in Latin America by reviewing historical and anthropological literature that, though not always centrally concerned with the production of blackness, nonetheless reveals how ideas about blackness have traveled across time and space. I begin […]

Tags: African Diaspora, blackness, Latin America, nation-making

Racism, racial democracy, mestizaje and sex/gender relations

Peter Wade peter.wade@manchester.ac.uk University of Manchester, UK Abstract: Latin American ideologies and practices of mestizaje contain within them dynamics of equality and difference and of racial democracy and racism at the same time. I explore how this simultaneous co-existence operates in large part through complex entanglements of sexuality, gender and race/ethnicity, which take place at […]

Tags: Gender, Latin America, mestizaje, race, sex

Of structured movements and moving structures. An overview of theoretical perspectives on social movements

Willem Assies, CEDLA, The Netherlands

Tags: Latin America, marxism, post-marxism., social movements, urban movements

A tribute to Willem Assies (1954-2010): reflections on his contribution to peasant and indigenous studies

Cristóbal Kay, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands

Tags: agrarian and peasant studies, indigenous peoples, Latin America, multicultural citizenship, multiethnic state, plurinational democracy, social movements, Willem Assies