Modernity

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

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How to Decolonize Revolution in this New Century?

Rafael Bautista Segales, Investigador independiente

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The World-System Beyond 1492: Modernity, Christianity, and Coloniality: Contributions for Global Histories of/from the South

José Romero Losacco, Centro de Estudios de las Transformaciones Sociales (IVIC), Venezuela

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The World-System Beyond 1492: Modernity, Christianity, and Coloniality: An Approach to the Decolonial Historiographic Turn

José Romero Losacco, Centro de Estudios de las Transformaciones Sociales (IVIC), Venezuela

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Thanatopolitics, Slavery, Colonial Capitalism, and Epistemic Racism in the Genocidal Invasion of the Americas

Juan Carlos Sánchez-Antonio, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, México

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Decolonizing the Census. The Social Division of Social Sciences and the Locus of their Tools in Colonial Genealogy

Pablo Estévez Hernández, Universidad de La Laguna, España

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Modernity and Governmentality: From Rural to Oil-Producing Venezuela

Luis R. Delgado J. , Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela

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Liberalism and Biopolitics in La Paz City in the Wake of the 20th Century

Nadia S. Guevara Ordóñez, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Deutschland

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Destroying the Idols of Western Modernity: Sirin Adlbi Sibai’s Decolonial Islamic Thinking

Helios F. Garcés, Investigador independiente, España

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‘Worlds and Wisdoms Otherwise’. The Latin American Modernity/Coloniality Research Program

Arturo Escobar, Departamento de Antropología y Universidad de Carolina del Norte, Chapel Hill

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

Juliana Flórez-Flórez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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Youth During the “Frente Nacional” (National Front): Rock and Politics in Colombia in the 60s

Hernando Cepeda Sánchez hernando.cepeda@gmail.com Universidad del Rosario, Colombia Abstract: This article is aimed at demonstrating that the young people of the 60s in Colombia who dedicated themselves to producing rock music adopted as their ideological orientation the social principles of progress and modernity of the central countries. The cultural models that guided this youth movement […]

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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 […]

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Social Inequality Unthought. Exposing Blind Spots through Views from Below

Manuela Boatcă manuela.boatca@ku-eichstaett.de Katholische Universität, Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Deutschland Abstract: On the basis of arguments put forth by gender studies, dependency/world-system approaches as well as by present-day Latin American postcolonial theories, the paper pleads for a global sociology of social inequality premised on three substantive correctives of the mainstream social inequality research: First, a shift from the […]

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A New era in the History of Philosophy: The Global Dialogue Among Philosophical Traditions

Enrique Dussel dussamb@servidor.unam.mx Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, México Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Abstract: This paper argues the following points: 1. It is necessary to affirm that all of humanity has always sought to address certain “core universal problems” that are present in all cultures. 2. The rational responses to these “core problems” first acquire […]

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

Ulrich Oslender, Florida International University, USA

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The biocentric path: intrinsic values, Nature rights and ecological justice

Eduardo Gudynas egudynas@ambiental.net Centro Latino Americano de Ecología Social (CLAES), Uruguay Abstract: The main conceptual approaches and social and political practices advocating for Nature as a subject of rights are reviewed here, in opposition to conventional approaches understanding Nature as a mere human-being-dependent object of appraisal. Contributions on environment intrinsic values are analysed here, as […]

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Modernity and difference

Eduardo Restrepo eduardoa.restrepo@gmail.com Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Abstract: This paper aims to call into question the way modernity has been understood, not only by its advocates, but also but those who think its theoretical and political practice must go through a questioning. The core argument in this paper is that modernity has never been, nor could […]

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Analytics of the modern: An introduction

Jonathan Xavier Inda jxinda@illinois.edu University of Illinois Abstract: This text posits the relevance of addressing modernity as an ethnographic object, that is, to examine it from situated discourses and practices. Such an ethnography draws on a Foucaultian approach with governmentality as a key category. From this perspective, an approach is put forward examining three analytical […]

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Modern another way. Caribbean lessons from the savage’s place

Michel-Rolph Trouillot rolph@uchicago.edu University of Chicago Abstract: “Modernity” is a cloudy term belonging to a familiy of words we might label as “NorthAthlantic universals”. These are particulars that have reached a universal degree; they are pieces of human history being turned into historical standards. This paper sustains that in its mainstream display, as a North-Atlantic […]

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“Scientific avatars” or doing anthropology of (and against) our modern discontent

Claudia Briones brionesc@gmail.com IIDyPCa-UNRN/CONICET, Argentina Abstract: Starting with an analysis of Avatar, the movie, and its various repercussions, I examine in this paper the feeling and cosmopolitical views this blockbuster seems to have arisen, and I identify the perspectives on indigenous alterity that seem to be implied and displayed by what I call a Metropolitan […]

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The invention of racial democracy in Venezuela

Pablo Quintero pquintero@filo.uba.ar Universidad de Buenos Aires / CONICET, Argentina Abstract: This paper explores the formation of racial democracy myth in Venezuela, by analysing Venezuelan novel Doña Bárbara, by Rómulo Gallegos. Published for the first time in 1929, this novel is one of the foundational works both of the racial democracy myth and contemporary arrangements […]

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“Coming off game”. Perspectives of theoretical articulation between transmodern decolonial criticism witht Foucault and Deleuze’s reflections

Hugo Busso hbusso@hotmail.es Universidad Paris 8 – U.B.A Abstract: Current biopolitical challenges prompt us to look for creative responses to the ‘worldsystem’ crisis and for alternatives to modern philosophical representation. Crisis and representation, that from the philosophy of liberation suggest leaving aside modern-colonial anchors, which are marked out as philosophical hindrances bringing bio-logical/political and social consequences, […]

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Imagining “Natural Paradise”. Representation and modernity in Puerto Gaitán, Meta

Sergio Ramírez seramirezdiaz@gmail.com Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Abstract: Puerto Gaitán municipality, in the department of Meta, has become important on the Colombian economic map. In this paper, I will show the formation of Puerto Gaitán in the last years, exploring changes in the modes of land exploitation, production and use, and the emergence of the […]

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Spectral interventions (or variations on sieging)

Leticia Katzer Conicet-IADIZA Centro Científico Tecnológico, Mendoza, Argentina Alejandro De Oto Conicet-Incihusa, Centro Científico Tecnológico, Mendoza, Argentina Abstract: Deconstruction has enthralled a significant portion of political thought and aroused a revival within epistemology. This essay aims to identify two key concepts in the subject / alterity relationship, namely, “ghost” and “specter”, in order to rethink […]

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Muslim women’s veil (hijab): between colonialist ideology and Islamic discourse: a decolonial view

Abstract: The debate on Muslim women’s veil (hijab) has always been central in contemporary feminist discussion, and therefore it embodies the core of the conflict between two antinomic views: the one in neo-orientalist and hegemonic neo-western discourse, and a certain majoritarian traditionalist Islamic discourse. For some, it embodies patriarchal oppression while for others it is […]

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Latifundia, capitalism and internal structural coloniality (13th -17th centuries): theoretical approaches to historical thinking on Andalusian latifundium

Javier García Fernández, Universidad de Coimbra, Portugal

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Towards an inter-epistemic and decolonial dialogue between Western and non-Western feminists

Tijana Limic, Universidad de Granada

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