Katya Colmenares Lizárraga, Instituto Nacional de Formación Política de Morena, México
Tags: community of life, decoloniality, Latin America, Modernity, philosophyRafael Bautista Segales, Investigador independiente
Tags: 21st century socialism, capitalism, decolonization, ModernityJosé Romero Losacco, Centro de Estudios de las Transformaciones Sociales (IVIC), Venezuela
Tags: coloniality, decoloniality, global history, Modernity, world-systemsJosé Romero Losacco, Centro de Estudios de las Transformaciones Sociales (IVIC), Venezuela
Tags: coloniality, decoloniality, global history, Modernity, world-systemsJuan Carlos Sánchez-Antonio, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, México
Tags: coloniality, exploitation, Modernity, original accumulationPablo Estévez Hernández, Universidad de La Laguna, España
Tags: biopolitics, Census, coloniality, governmentality, Modernity, nation-state, social sciencesLuis R. Delgado J. , Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela
Tags: biopolitics, governmentality, Modernity, petro-StateNadia S. Guevara Ordóñez, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Deutschland
Tags: biopolitics, Gov-ernmentality, Indigenous people, liberalism, Modernity, urban processHelios F. Garcés, Investigador independiente, España
Tags: coloniality, decolonial, feminism, islam, Modernity, racismArturo Escobar, Departamento de Antropología y Universidad de Carolina del Norte, Chapel Hill
Tags: coloniality, geopolitics of knowledge, Modernity, pluriversalityJuliana Flórez-Flórez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Tags: Coloniality. Social Movements, Latin America, ModernityHernando 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 […]
Tags: cultural resistance, institutions, Modernity, rock music, youth culturesAntonio 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, ModernityManuela 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 […]
Tags: globality, Modernity, Occidentalism, postcolonialism, social inequalityEnrique 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 […]
Tags: ethical-mythical nucleus, ethics, Modernity, pluriverse, transmodernity, world philosophyUlrich Oslender, Florida International University, USA
Tags: aquatic epistemology, Colombian Pacific, critical cartography, eurocentrism, imperialism, Modernity, pluriverse, political ontologyEduardo 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 […]
Tags: anthropocentrism, biocentrism, ecological justice, environmental justice, intrinsic values, Modernity, nature rightsEduardo 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 […]
Tags: eventualization, governmentality, hyperreal modernity, ModernityJonathan 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 […]
Tags: anthropologies of modernity, ethnography, Foucault, governmentality, ModernityMichel-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 […]
Tags: Caribbean, historical anthropology, Modernity, slaveryClaudia 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 […]
Tags: alternative cosmopolitism, metropolitan alternativism, Modernity, translation policiesPablo 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 […]
Tags: coloniality, modernist literature, Modernity, racial democracy, Rómulo Gallegos, VenezuelaHugo 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, […]
Tags: conceptual character, eurocentrism, Modernity, subject, transmodernitySergio 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 […]
Tags: difference, disavowal, imagination, Modernity, nature, Puerto Gaitán Paraíso Natural, representationLeticia 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 […]
Tags: coloniality, ghosts, Modernity, ontology, spectersAbstract: 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 […]
Tags: Body, colonial ideology, decolonial, emancipation, Hijab, islam, Modernity, Orientalism, patriarchal oppression, Quran, veil, womenJavier García Fernández, Universidad de Coimbra, Portugal
Tags: 1492, conquest of Al-Andalus, historical capitalism, internal structural coloniality, latifundia land explotation mode, modern colonial world/system, ModernityTijana Limic, Universidad de Granada
Tags: coloniality, epistemicide, feminism, Modernity