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The Burden of the White Man or How to Decolonize Humanitarian Aid

Arantza Peralta

Tags: anti-racism, critical theory, decolonization, development., global South, humanitarian action, humanitarism, Latin American, power

Discourses on youth and being young. A review of discursive formations in social sciences in a Foucauldian key

Sandra del Pilar Gómez Contreras, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia

Tags: being young, discourse, discursive formations, knowledge, power, youth

Colonial Painting and the Education of the gaze. Conformation of identities and otherness

Vivian Marcela Carrión Barrero viviancarrionbarrero@yahoo.es Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Abstract: This writing tries to analyze one of the ways a policy of “otherness” was constructed and produced in the context of the 17th century, during the Colony. Showing the way how a discourse was elaborated and appropriated through images, in which a policy of segregation was […]

Tags: Device, discourse, image, Other, power, race

The Power and Resistance in Michel Foucault

Reinaldo Giraldo Díaz regiraldo@hotmail.com UCEVA -Unidad Central del Valle del Cauca (Colombia) Abstract: This paper analyzes the concepts of power and resistance in Michel Foucault‘s books during his genealogic period. Specifically, after his book L’ordre du discours, a programatic text, until his first volume of The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. The paper deals with […]

Tags: bio-politics, bio-power, controlling societies, creation, disciplinary society, governability, Life, power, Resistance

Power, Networks and Ideology of Development

Gustavo Lins Ribeiro gustavor@unb.br Universidade de Brasilia (Brasil) Abstract: “Development” is the economic expansion in love with itself. This means that we need to know the belief system that lies beneath this devotion, as well as the characteristics of the power field that sustains it. The structure and dynamic of each development area are marked […]

Tags: contemporary utopias, development., ideologies, power

Two Strange Bedfellows – Of Ideology and Power in Althusser and Foucault

Pablo Francisco Pérez Navarro perez.p@javeriana.edu.co Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Abstract: In the contemporary cultural and philosophical context, there is a downright devaluation of the notion of ideology, after the abuse carried out by the popularization of the Marxist theory during the sixties and seventies. This paper considers the importance of maintaining alive a certain notion […]

Tags: identity, ideology, interpolation, power, science, subjectivity, truth, work

Ethics in Michel Foucault or the Possibility of Resistance

Reinaldo Giraldo regiraldo@hotmail.com Universidad Central del Valle del Cauca, Colombia Abstract: In this paper I maintain the hypothesis that Michel Foucault’s studies do not lead to a negative thought, a circular one, with no alternatives or to a dead-end. Dissolving the notion of constituing subject allows the French thinker to make permanent shifts and open […]

Tags: ethics, Foucault, power, Resistance, subject

A history of spaces, a history of powers: towards a genealogy of public space notion

Jorge Eliécer Martínez P. jmartinezp2@gmail.com Universidad de la Salle, Colombia Abstract: This paper addresses the notion of public space. Following Michel Foucault’s statement that “making a history of spaces would be, at the same time, making a history of powers”, a genealogy of this notion is presented, which accounts for a history of the diverse […]

Tags: biopolitics, governmentality, heterotopies, power, space

Intersections between anthropology and cultural studies: an analysis on the “political” and the politics in our field of study

Diana Bocarejo dbocarejo@gmail.com Universidad del Rosario, Colombia Abstract: In spite of their mutual caricaturization, anthropology and cultural studies share a set of analytical approaches which could result in immensely fruitful dialogues. In this brief reflection I intend to present some contributions from both fields of study compared to the analysis both theoretical and empirical on “the […]

Tags: culture, Intersection cultural studies-anthropology, power

On desires, interventions and trajectories: anthropology and cultural studies in Colombia

Juan Ricardo Aparicio japarici@uniandes.edu.co Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Abstract: In this paper, I will give a look to the relationship between anthropology and cultural studies through a common research platform on the relationship between culture and power. Thus, far from following the stereotypes under which anthropology and cultural studies are called in Colombia, this […]

Tags: anthropology in Colombia, cultural studies, culture, power, radical contextualism

Foucault —liberalism and criticism to political philosophy

Mario Domínguez Sánchez mario2963@gmail.com Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España Abstract: In avoiding modern and contemporary political philosophy’s dicomotized abstractions, Michel Foucault has not intended to rebuild a transcendental, rational and normative whole, or rationally legitimate values, but to study the practices themselves in a given society, and the changes they generate. Stressing the individual’s self-shaping […]

Tags: governmentality, liberalism, political philosophy, power, subjectivity

Territorial coloniality: to analyse Foucault within the bounds of metropoli deterritorialization. Notes from La Habana

Yasser Farrés Delgado  yasserfarres@gmail.com Universidad de Granada, España Alberto Matarán Ruiz mataran@ugr.es Universidad de Granada, España Abstract: In defining panoptism, Foucault was demonstrating spatial conceptions contain power issues. That view may be useful to establish interdisciplinary dialogues so as to build a critical theory on the contemporary notions of territory, city and architecture, but this […]

Tags: capitalism, Foucault, La Habana, metropoli deterritorialization, panoptism, power, socialism, territorial coloniality

Notes on ideology. Between power, truth and symbolic violence

Mariano Di Pasquale mariano.dipasquale@gmail.com Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina Abstract: This paper aims to analyze a series of reflections around the phenomenon of ideology as an analytical tool. To do this, some central components in Teun van Dijk’s model will be analyzed so that the link between ideology and power is highlighted. Slavoj […]

Tags: ideology, power, symbolic violence, truth

The device: a grid of analysis for visibilizing subjectivities

Jorge Eliécer Martínez Posada, Universidad de la Salle, Colombia

Tags: Device, knowledge, power, subject, subjectivity, truth

(De)colonial symptoms: Grosfoguel as a reader to Foucault

Diego A. Soto Morera, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

Tags: colonial technologies, Genealogy, governmentality, power, racism

Questioning Power as Dominance —Rethinking Power Analyses in Social Action

María Belén Ortega Senet, Universidad Católica Santísima Concepción, Chile

Tags: deconstruction, ideological representations, power, social action, the politically thinkable