Abstract
Decolonial studies emerged in the late 20th century with the aim of renewing Latin American critical thinking and denouncing contemporary forms of domination, considering that relations of coloniality persist to this day in the structure of societies. These studies strive to think about Latin America from its place of enunciation, as they argue that there is a geopolitics of thinking, whereby the world is thought of from a northern perspective and the global south is subjected to this hegemonic epistemological order. This paper therefore questions the role of the colonial process in establishing Eurocentric epistemology as hegemonic in the global cultural order from a decolonial perspective. We argue that the colonial process established a model of domination that included not only political and economic exploitation, but also the imposition of a cognitive model in which Europe held a hegemonic role in the production of subjectivity, culture and global knowledge. Colonialism thus has led to the coloniality of knowledge, imposing a hegemonic Eurocentric knowledge and leading to the subjugation and eradication of different knowledges and ways of life. We sought to conduct a literature review, drawing on decolonial authors like Anibal Quijano (2000), Castro-Gómez (2005), Maldonado-Torres (2007) and Maria Lugones (2008).
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2024 Special Focus—Traveling Concepts: The Transfer and Translation of Ideas in the Humanities
KEYWORDS
Decolonial, Eurocentric, Critical theory
