EDITED BY
FERNANDO DAVID MÁRQUEZ DUARTE
& VÍCTOR ALEJANDRO ESPINOZA VALLE
This work brings together twelve chapters that address, from a decolonial approach, various aspects of the original history of Abya Yala. Divided into two sections, Theoretical Discussions and Praxis Analyses, they provide a general and critical view of the colonization of Indigenous Peoples that not only explains social or economic subjugation of Latin American people, but also makes it clear that colonization is ontological and epistemological. It is a way of conceiving history and memory as subjugation imposed by those who set themselves up as lords and masters of the land and of the social and cultural heritage of Latin America. Thus, colonization must be conceived as a totality. Therefore, deconstructing the hegemonic vision of history is necessary in order to recognize the ancestral rights of Indigenous communities. The decolonial vision is radical in the sense that it goes beyond the European descendants or mestizo visions from which the explanation of Latin American development was constructed. The book’s contents are developed by specialists committed to a contested vision of history. This book aims to investigate the roots of hegemonic thought and provide theoretical and empirical tools to imagine other readings of Abya Yala.
Índice
INTRODUCTION
Aura Cumes 1
PART ONE - THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS
DECOLONIALITY AND CONTEMPORARY REGIONALISM IN ALIANZA BOLIVARIANA PARA LOS PUEBLOS DE NUESTRA AMÉRICA (ALBA)
Alina Ribeiro & Marina Scotelaro - 10
DECOLONIZING SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION: AN ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK FOUNDED ON POST-DEVELOPMENT AND THE COMMON
Marina Bolfarine Caixeta & Maria do Carmo Reboucas dos Santos - 28
ARMED ACTORS IN THE COLOMBIAN CONFLICT: STATE VS ARMED GROUPS
Deisy Milena Sorzano Rodriguez & Etienne Mulume Oderhwa - 50
DECOLONIZING ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: SUMAK KAWSAY AS A POSSIBLE MORAL FOUNDATION FOR GREEN POLICIES
Valeria Victoria Rodríguez Morales - 65
LATIN AMERICAN CRITICAL ECONOMIC THINKING AND THE LABOR MARKET
Rocio Arredondo & Javier Castellon - 78
LATIN AMERICAN ANTIPHILOSOPHIES
Christina Soto Van der Plas - 95
PART TWO - PRAXIS ANALYSIS
THE CRIME OF DEFENDING A RIVER: DOMINATION, RACISM, AND STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IN GUATEMALA
Miguel Alejandro Saquimux Contreras - 108
DECOLONISING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA: AN APPROACH OVER THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE LANDLESS WORKERS MOVEMENT (MST)
Ellen Monielle do Vale Silva & Guilherme de Lima Souza - 127
MESSAGES FROM THE MEEK: DYNAMIC RESISTANCES AT THE EDGE OF AMAZONIAN COLONIZATION AND CAPITALISM
Christian Ferreira Crevels - 141
DEVELOPMENT OR BEM VIVER? THE XUKURU DO ORORUBÁ PEOPLE’S VISION OF SACRED AGRICULTURE AS A COUNTER-HEGEMONIC PROPOSAL FOR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMAN BEINGS AND NATURE
Iran Neves Ordonio, Carla Ladeira Pimentel Águas & Marcos Moraes Valença - 155
‘EL PUEBLO MANDA Y EL GOBIERNO OBEDECE’: DECOLONISING POLITICS AND CONSTRUCTING WORLDS IN THE EVERYDAY THROUGH ZAPATISTA AUTONOMY
Sebastián Granda Henao - 172
CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS OF HAITIANS ON MEXICALI, BAJA CALIFORNIA: THE ROAD TOWARD INTERCULTURALISM.
Kenia María Ramírez Meda & Adriana Teresa Moreno-Gutiérrez - 192
NOTE ON INDEXING - 208
