Category: Decolonial Thought
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Sobre descolonización/descolonialidad, una vez más
12.01.2007 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…
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Rafael Correa: It is “Change of Epoch” Rather Than “An Epoch of Changes” [03.30.2007]
In January of 2006 Evo Morales became the president of Bolivia; in November of 2006 Hugo Chávez was elected by a significant majority of votes for a second term in Venezuela; and in January of 2007, one year after Morales, Rafael Correa became the president of Ecuador. Rafael Correa’s expression in his presidential discourse “it…
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Telling Half of the Story [01.02.2007]
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani objected to the bipartisan study group chaired by James Baker III and Lee Hamilton. He was reported by the international press to have said that the bipartisan U.S. report calling for a new approach to the war offered dangerous recommendations that would undermine his country’s sovereignty and were “an insult to…
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Eurocentrism 21st Century: The King and the Colonial Vassal, 11.29.2007
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…
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Beyond Populism: Decolonizing the Economy, 05.09.2006
[Counterpunch] Evo Morales recently read the “Supreme Decree” in which the nationalization of natural gas was announced. The rumor that this was about to happen had already spread in Bolivia. The decree starts by considering that “in historical struggles, the people have conquered and paid with their blood, the right to return our natural resources…
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El Pensamiento Descolonial, 11.19.2006
Oldep.net (Observatorio Latino-Americano de Políticas Educacionales, Brazil; September 14, 2006.Also in Amauta.in.br; September 15, 2006. En la conferencia dictada en la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar Josepth Stiglitz expuso brevemente su teoría de la información imperfecta y sus implicaciones para el trabajo hacia una sociedad democrática y justa. Afirmaba que, en el proceso, las universidades tienen…
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It is a Change of Era, No Longer an Era of Changes
I The current accumulation of “crises” (pandemic, global warming, financial crises, mass unemployment, the risk of nuclear conflagration, increasing rates of femicides and suicides) might appear as symptomatic of a specific juncture in the long modern/colonial era of changes and crises from circa 1500 to the year 2000. An unquestionable signpost of our time is…
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Elecciones En Brasil: Entre La Reoccidentalización Y La Desoccidentalización
Durante su presidencia Dilma Rousseff aumentó el distanciamiento entre Brasil y los EE.UU, distanciamiento que comenzó durante la presidencia de Ignacio Lula da Silva. Dos acontecimientos importantes, en el pasado reciente, aumentaron tanto la distancia y como la tensión entre los dos estados: Rousseff canceló su visita a Washington al hacerse público que los Estados…