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Decolonial Thought

Decolonial thought aims to critique Eurocentric knowledge hierarchies and ways of being in order to enable other forms of existence. It questions the universality of Western knowledge and superiority of Western culture. Decolonial scholars bring questions of empire, colonialism, and race back into the study of world politics. They seek to retrieve indigenous epistemologies and cosmologies to rethink human and non-human relations. The term "modernity/coloniality" was developed by Latin American thinkers to examine how colonialism underpins capitalist modernity and imperialism.

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Decolonial Thought

Decolonial thought aims to critique Eurocentric knowledge hierarchies and ways of being in order to enable other forms of existence. It questions the universality of Western knowledge and superiority of Western culture. Decolonial scholars bring questions of empire, colonialism, and race back into the study of world politics. They seek to retrieve indigenous epistemologies and cosmologies to rethink human and non-human relations. The term "modernity/coloniality" was developed by Latin American thinkers to examine how colonialism underpins capitalist modernity and imperialism.

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Decolonial Dra.

Ana Alonso

thought
What are the most
important features of world
politics according to
decolonial approaches?
Important How do decolonial
questions to scholars approach the study
of international relations?
reflect
Is it possible to decolonize
world politics?
¿Decolonization and
decoloniality?
Decoloniza
tion

usually refers to the


processes of formal
colonial and imperial
withdrawal from many
countries in Asia,
Africa, the Caribbean,
and America, especially
in the twentieth century
school of though that emerged as part of a South
America movement examining the role of
the European colonization of the Americas in
establishing Eurocentric modernity/coloniality
aims to critique Eurocentric knowledge
hierarchies and ways of being in the world in order
to enable other forms of existence on Earth.
DEColonialit universality of Western knowledge and the
superiority of Western culture, including the
systems and institutions that reinforce these
y perceptions.
colonialism as the basis for the everyday function
of capitalist modernity and imperialism. (Mainly
because is at the root of how the modern world
functions today)
bringing questions of empire, colonialism, and race
back into the study of world politics
Modernity/development
Starting point of Modernity (Quijano, Escobar)/ Era of development (Gilbert Rist)
Development far from being an issue that matters for the South (undeveloped countries)
concerns all the countries of the world.
Discourse: ideological system of meaning that constitutes and naturalizes the subjects and
objects of political life (Moon, 2006)
Discourse and power (Michel Foucault)
• Power is everywhere’, diffused and embodied in discourse, knowledge and ‘regimes of truth’
• Power is constituted through accepted forms of knowledge, scientific understanding and ‘truth’
• Discourse transmits and produces power; it reinforces it, but also undermines and expose it, renders it
fragile and makes it possible to thwart
• Truth regimes (Truth regimes (result of scientific discourse and institutions, and are reinforced through
the education system, the media, and political and economic ideologies.)
Foucault, M. (1991). Discipline and Punish: the birth of a prison. London, Penguin.
Foucault, M. (1998) .The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge, London, Penguin.
1. Concern over epistemology
2. Critique knowledge as objective or neutral. (ex. Maps and language)
3. Seek to retrieve indigenous epistemologie sand cosmologies with which
to think about
relations among humans and, often, non-humans (Sumac Kawsay/Buen
Vivir)
4. ‘Modernity/coloniality’ is a term developed among Latin American
thinkers, principally Enrique Dussel, Anibal Quijano, Walter Mignolo,
and Maria Lugones.
Which map of the world
have you seen more
often?
Leer y
comentar
Arturo Escobar (colombian athropologist)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. STU-Student
edition. Princeton University Press, 1995.
• La Invención del Tercer Mundo, Construcción y Deconstrucción del Desarrollo. trad. D.
Ochoa, Caracas. Editorial El Perro y la Rana. 2007.
• Development: magic formula
“This book grew out of a sense of puzzlement: the fact that for many years the
industrialized nations of North America and Europe were supposed to be the
indubitable models for the societies of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the so-called
Third World, and that these societies must catch up with the industrialized countries,
perhaps even become like them”
Global North and Global South
Not geographic designations (economic and geopolitical
implications)
‘Global North’ can describe historically dominant
countries, but also wealthy ruling elites in the South.
‘South’ can be understood as a metaphor for excluded
and exploited ethnic minorities, women in wealthy and
dominant countries, as well as the historically colonized
or ‘poorer’ countries

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