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 [...]

El PIEB (Proyecto Investigaciones Estratégicas de Bolivia) acaba de publicar electrónicamente una serie de entrevistas realizadas durante el Cuarto Encuentro Internacional del Grupo Barlovento celebrado en La Paz del 18 al 24 de mayo, el cual permitió importantes escenarios de diálogo, reflexión y aproximación en torno a la historia y el presente de los afro [...]

Silvia Ribeiro es investigadora y directora de gestion de ETC group con base en Mexico. ETC group equivale a Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration. El programa se dedica a investigar en pro del avance sustantable de la diversidad ecologica y de los derechos humanos. Su ultimo articulo publicado en ALAI, America [...]

In two of my previous postings I argued for the need of specific type of transformations in the philosophy of education within the existing system and history of the university; history that I have outlined elsewhere. Within the existing system research toward non-capitalist economies shall be encourage as well as research that unveils the [...]

La caída de la “Calle Wall”(Wall Street) reproduce, casi veinte años despues, la caída del “Muro de Berlin”(Berlin Wall). En realidad, el paralelo no debe sorprendernos. Ambos, el “el capitalismo real”y el “socialismo real”son hijos mellizos herederos de la ilustración y de la secularización en la historia de occidente. El estado-nación secular y el capitalismo [...]

Mis comentarios sobre “Eurocentrism 21st Century: The King and the Colonial Vassal”provocaron algunas reacciones immediatas. Una de ellas, pregunta por qué escribo en inglés sobre estos temas. En los próximos días traduciré el artículo al castellano y responderé a esta pregunta.
En lo que sigue, hago algunas aclaraciones dirigidas a preguntas y objeciones que se me [...]

A while ago, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek stated that when someone says Eurocentrism “every self-respecting postmodern leftist intellectual has as violent a reaction as Joseph Goebbels had to culture: to reach for a gun, hurling accusations of proto-fascist Eurocentrist cultural imperialism.” However, he asked himself, “is it possible to imagine a leftist appropriation of the [...]

During one pleasant summer night Leo Ching, Ralph Litzinger and I where chatting about the quite interesting issue of Vanity Fair, published in July of 2007 and edited by Bono.
The issue received quite a bit of attention.
The conversation moved from Bono’s “crusade”to Bill and Melinda Gates in cooperation with the Rockefeller Foundation’s project [...]

There is a recurrent blindness among readers and commentators of The Idea of Latin America. Although in the third part of the book I argued that “After”Latin America is the work of Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Andean, of Indigenous intellectuals and political projects and that Latinos and Latinas in the US also contribute to dismantling the [...]

My friend Roger, from Brazilia, sent me this site about the growing presence of Afro-Latin Americans, as the saying goes.
There is an interesting map, that I highlight here for your easy access.
It will be interesting to have a similar map tracing the European migration to—let’s say to simplify matters—America. Do you have [...]