April 18th, 2010

Slavery, the Holocaust and the Challenge of Global Justice

A Summer School in Middleburg, Holland, co-directed by Walter Mignolo and Rolando Vazquez

http://trinity.duke.edu/globalstudies/slavery-the-holocaust-and-the-challenge-of-global-justice-exploring-critical-and-decolonial-approaches,

followed up by a workshop on Critical and Decolonial Dialogues

http://trinity.duke.edu/globalstudies/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/100215-critical-and-decolonial-dialogues-Final.pdf

Both the Seminar and the Workshop are based on a basic assumptions: There are two kind of critics to modernity. One is internal to Europe, from the Frankfurt School to post-modernity. The second kind emerged in the borders of Euro/American imperial expansion and interference with the non-Euro American world. We label “critical” de first kind and “decolonial” the second, which doesn’t mean that the decolonial is not critical. It means that is critical from the exteriority of the West. That is, a critique from the “outside” invented by Western epistemology to legitimize itself as the “inside” and the point of reference to make the will turn around.

2 Responses

  • March 3rd, 2009
  • § Ramon H. Quintero says:

The case for a decolonial global system, the system must be egalitarian and holistic in its approach. We have seen socialism fail and we have seen capitalism succed in its self aflicted destruction. The future belongs to a system that can unite humanity in its diferences for the good of all of us that live on planet Earth. Our unit of analisis must not be limited to a region or a member of the inter state system. The case for a decolonial global system can be achieve by creating first the language. Furthermore, we must be brave and take the battle to the institutions of status quo. Those that say that there is no future with out capitalism. Have been proven wrong over and over again by people like Aime Cesare that gave us an example of courage and self sacrifice in his philosophy, and Fenon that gave us an example of intectual courage. Hasta la victoria siempre.

Sólo un precisión: lo de “Wall Street” viene porque esa famosa calle era denominada “la calle del muro”, no porque se llame “calle Muro”.
Interesante artículo pero considero que definitivamente no significa para nada la caída del capitalismo, al contrario, las grandes potencias han vuelto a aplicar el famoso “keynesianismo” para salvar sus economías, incorporando nuevas reglas y regulaciones más estrictas pero sin dejar a un lado el concepto capitalista con el que mueven esas economías. Lo del socialismo sí fue una caída mortal y el famoso “socialismo del siglo XXI” no es más que el capitalismo disfrazado.

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