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Este ensaio trata da relação histórica entre modernidade e capitalismo, assim como das possibilidades para um horizonte de transformação que supere as tradicionais concepções binárias de ver e estar no mundo. Ao contrário do que expõe a esquerda ocidentalizada, propõe-se aqui uma visão crítica decolonial dessa relação. A partir da presente interven...
Este libro reúne a algunas de las principales voces latinoamericanas de la corriente descolonial: Enrique Dussel, Ramón Grosfoguel, Juan José Bautista, Karina Ochoa y Héctor Alimonda. Los trabajos aquí reunidos se unifican en el planteamiento de
que para la superación de la actual crisis civilizatoria y el tránsito hacia un mundo más justo, no bast...
p class="p1">El artículo discute las múltiples manifestaciones y dimensiones de la islamofobia. Ésta es entendida como una forma de racismo que tiene larga duración en el sistema-mundo, pero resurgió con fuerza a partir del 11 de septiembre de 2001. Dedicando especial atención a la islamofobia epistémica como una manera de racismo epistémico.</p
Resumen: Este artículo compara cuatro migraciones caribeñas hacia las cuatro metrópolis que dominan el Caribe hoy. Se trata de las migraciones desde territorios no-independientes del Caribe: desde Martinica/Guadalupe hacia Francia, Puerto Rico hacia los Estados Unidos, Surinam/Caribe Holandés hacia Holanda y Caribe Británico hacia el Reino Unido. E...
Desde un enfoque decolonial, este articulo recupera el concepto de extractivismo, atraves de una revision critica de las practicas del capitalismo y del colonialismo, ambas inherentes, originarias de una misma raiz: el pensamiento occidentalo-centrico. Las mutaciones del extractivismo economico en su expansion planetaria resultan evidentes en este...
Este artículo trata algunos aspectos menos tratados y desarrollados de la teoría del «extractivismo»: el «extractivismo epistemológico» y el «extractivismo ontológico». Siguiendo las aportaciones descoloniales de la indígena canadiense Leanne Betasamosake Simpson y de la boliviana Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, el autor desarrolla una teoría sobre las d...
This paper addresses some of the least developed and dealt with matters in the theory of "extractivism", namely, "epistemological extractivism" and "ontological extractivism". Following the decolonial contributions by Canadian indigenous Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Bolivian Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, the author develops a theory on the most unkn...
This article discusses the epistemic structures of the modern world in relation to four genocides/epistemicides of the long 16th century (1450-1650). It argues that the epistemic privilege of Western Man was build upon the genocide/epistemicide against colonial subjects. The article relates the racist/sexist epistemic structure of Westernized Unive...
This article provides a definition of racism inspired in the work of Frantz Fanon, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and contemporary Caribbean Fanonian Philosophers. It discusses racism in relation to zone of being and zone of non-being. Racism is discussed as a dehumanization related to the materiality of domination used by the world-system in the zone...
This chapter has been inspired by Enrique Dussel’s critique to Cartesian philosophy and his World-Historical work on the conquest of the Americas in the long sixteenth century.1 It aims at adding another dimension to his many contributions by looking at the Conquest of the Americas in relation to three other world-historical processes, namely the C...
The concept of ‘racism’ has faced many difficulties in migration studies. Depending on definitions, islamophobia is a form either of religious discrimination or of racism. The same is true in contemporary debates in Europe about xenophobia against immigrants from the Global South. This article provides an alternative way of thinking about racism an...
This article discusses the epistemic racism/sexism that is foundational to the knowledge structures of the Westernized University. The article proposes that the epistemic priviledge of Western Man in Westenized Universities' structures of knowledge, is the result of four genocides/epistemicides in the long 16th century (against Jewish and Muslim or...
This article discusses the epistemic racism/sexism that is foundational to the knowledge structures of the Westernized University. The article proposes that the epistemic priviledge of Western Man in Westenized Universities' structures of knowledge, is the result of four genocides/epistemicides in the long 16th century (against Jewish and Muslim or...
Este artículo trata acerca de la emergencia histórica del racismo en el sistema-mundo y la definición del concepto de racismo. El mismo discute como contrapunteo la visión del racismo en Michel Foucault y la de Frantz Fanon. Este escrito provee una discusión acerca de las implicaciones epistémicas descoloniales de la teoría de Fanon acerca del raci...
Ethnic studies in the United States represents a contradictory space within which two hegemonic discourses (identitarian multiculturalism and disciplinary colonization) and a counter-hegemonic one (decolonial epistemologies) condense and enter into debate and struggle. In contrast to other parts of the world, ethnic studies in the United States eme...
Les universités européennes à la croisée des chemins Le classement de Shanghai publié en 2003 a touché la fierté française en plein cøeur en reléguant ses universités et grandes écoles en bas du tableau d'honneur, loin derrière les universités des mégalopoles nord-américaines, britanniques et japonaises. Mille critiques furent formulées à l'encontr...
This paper is an analysis of the Westernized university and its Eurocentric fundamentalism in relation to the subaltern struggles of racialized groups in America and its impact on the formation of ethnic studies in the university's epistemic structure. The paper goes on to discuss questions of epistemic racism/sexism and the dilemmas that ethnic st...
Resumen: este artículo trata acerca de la emergencia histórica del racismo en el sistema-mundo y la definición del concepto de racismo. El mismo discute como contrapunteo la visión del racismo en Michel Foucault y la de Frantz Fanon. Este escrito provee una discusión acerca de las implicaciones epistémicas descoloniales de la teoría de Fanon acerca...
Le projet de decolonisation des savoirs se limite-t-il aux savoirs dominants ? Non, car les modeles critiques de pensee et d’analyse associes aux mouvements sociaux et aux mouvements politiques de gauche dans les pays du Nord, seraient eux aussi a decoloniser, dans la mesure ou ils reproduisent souvent eux aussi, de facon irreflechie, certains mode...
N° spécial de la revue "Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge", Vol. X, Issue 1, Winter 2012. Proceedings of the International Conference on "Quelles universités et quels universalismes demain en Europe? un dialogue avec les Amériques" ("Which University and Universalism for Europe Tomorrow? A Dialogue with the Americas"),...
Durant les dernieres decennies, dans divers pays, les pouvoirs publics et les migrants ont œuvre a la creation de musees et d’expositions ayant trait aux questions d’identite, de representation, de memoire et d’histoire en relation avec le phenomene migratoire. Parce qu’il est reconnu apte a sauver de l’oubli des objets et des savoirs, et qu’il off...
Este artículo investiga la manera en que el racismo epistémico modela las discusiones contemporáneas sobre islamofobia. El racismo epistémico es un aspecto subestimado del racismo. En la primera parte, se presenta una discusión sobre el racismo epistémico a nivel del sistema mundial. En la segunda, se introduce la política de identidad hegemónica d...
Ramón Grosfoguel is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston College and Research Associate of the Fernand Braudel Center at SUNY Binghamton and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. He is the co-editor (with Héctor Cordero-Guzmán and Robert Smith) of a forthcoming anthology entitled Transnational Communities and the Political Economy of N...
This is a co-editors’ introduction to the Fall 2011 issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, entitled “Contesting Memory: Museumizations of Migration in Comparative Global Context,” including papers that were presented at a conference on “Museums and Migration” held on June 25-26, 2010, at the Maison des Science de l...
The adoption of a quota system by the Brazilian Public Universities has aroused an intensive and heated debate among several antiracist Brazilian intellectuals who aim to build a fairer society, but who also place themselves in opposite positions when the theme is the implementation of quotas. The negative reaction of white as well as mixed-race sc...
This article deals with the role of what has been called the « new racism » in the reproduction of « imagined historical borders » that exclude colonial people from access to equal rights within the core of the capitalist world-economy. Post-war Caribbean colonial migration to the metropolis provides an important terrain for the examination of raci...
This article explores how epistemic racism shapes contemporary discussions on Islamophobia. Epistemic Racism is an underestimated aspect of racism. The first part is a discussion about epistemic racism in the world-system. The second part is on the Western male hegemonic identity politics and the fundamentalist responses to it. The third part is on...
El presente artículo ofrece una primera aproximación desde el enfoque decolonial, al análisis de las condiciones de posibilidad de consolidación y articulación de propuestas políticas no eurocéntricas. El contexto del artículo son las luchas anti-sistémicas globales, anticapitalistas, anticoloniales, antipatriarcales y antiimperialistas, en el hori...
This paper is a first de-colonial approach to the analysis of conditions of possibility for consolidating and articulating non-Eurocentric political proposals. It is based on anti-systemic global, anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, anti-patriarchal and anti-imperialist struggles on the horizon of de-colonial projects (other lefts) emergence in Latin A...
This article discusses the consequences of the latest Israeli massacres in Gaza in relation to its global consequences for Human Rights and Global Anti-Semitism today. The first part is a discussion of the consequences of Gaza towards Human Rights. The second part is a discussion of the consequences of Gaza towards global anti-semitism. The last pa...
A novel and interdisciplinary volume on the dynamics of migration with comparative case studies of the Caribbean experience.
The adoption of a quota system by the Brazilian Public Universities has aroused an intensive and heated debate among several anti-racist Brazilian intellectuals who aim to build a fairer society, but who also place themselves in opposite positions when the theme is the implementation of quotas. The negative reaction of white as well as mixed-race s...
Este artículo analiza las marchas multitudinarias de inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos durante los meses de marzo, abril y mayo de 2006 en los Estados Unidos. Estas marchas fueron las más grandes en la historia estadounidense con la participación de millones de personas, la mayoría latinos, en más de 100 ciudades norteamericanas. El artículo hace u...
Este artículo discute el concepto de «Universal» en la tradición filosófica occidental y propone maneras otras, decoloniales, de pensar la Uni-versalidad como Pluri-versalidad a partir del pensamiento de Aimé Césaire, Enrique Dussel y los zapatistas. La primera parte discute el concepto de «Universal» desde Descartes hasta Marx pasando por Kant y H...
The present article discusses the political and cultural implications of the demographic shifts in the United States in the 21st century. White Americans are going to be a demographic minority in several decades. The article argues that the US empire is divided between two political options: neo-apartheid or decolonization. A new form of apartheid...
This article discusses the concept of the Universal in the western philosophical tradition and proposes Other, decolonial ways to think about Uni-versality as Pluri-versality, based on the thinking of Aimé Cesaire, Enrique Dussel and the Zapatistas. The first part discusses the concept of “universal” from Descartes to Marx, covering Kant and Hegel....
This article analyzes the marches in which multitudes of immigrants participated in the United States during March, April and May of 2006. These marches were the largest in the history of the United States, with the participation of millions of people, mostly Latinos, in more than 100 North American cities. The article conducts an analysis of the v...
En este número de Tabula Rasa, queremos presentar un conjunto de artículos escritos por investigadores del proyecto colectivo identificado por una trilogía de conceptos no solamente interrelacionados sino que forman una unidad heterogénea estructural. Estos tres conceptos son: Modernidad/colonialidad/descolonialidad. 1. Modernidad/colonialidad/desc...
This article discusses the epistemic implications of the de-colonial turn of the decolonization of the “global capitalism” concept, as it has been used in the paradigms of political economy and cultural studies. Other terms that are discussed include “colonization of power”, “border epistemologies” and “transmodernity” to start thinking not in “new...
Postmodernism as an epistemological project still reproduces a particular form of coloniality. A decolonial perspective requires a broader canon of thought that would require taking seriously the epistemic insights of critical thinkers from the global South. How can a "critical border thinking" that envisages a "transmodern world" moves us beyond E...
This edited volume is the result of the colloquium "Caribbean Migrations to Western Europe and the United States" held on June 20-21, 2002, at the Maison des Science de l'Homme in Paris. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first post-9/11 conference held on Caribbean migration. The post-9/11 period is marked by "Islamophobia"-overt discrimin...
a pesar de las apariencias, el imperio estadounidense se encuentra en una decadencia
acelerada. existen muchas luchas anti-capitalistas, anti-imperialistas y anti-patriarcales al
interior de este imperio, invisibles para los pueblos que viven sus consecuencias nefastas
en américa latina, África, asia y el medio oriente. este artículo presenta los d...
Despite appearances, the United States Empire finds itself in an accelerated decay. There are many fights, such as anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and anti-patriarchic taking place in the interior of this empire, invisible to the peoples that live through the ominous consequences in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Middle East. This article prese...
Ethnic studies in the United States were academic areas conquered by the fights of racial minorities on the inside of the empire in the decades of the 1960s and 1970s; since their foundation these studies have been attacked because of their eurocentricity. This field of knowledge has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of racial, se...
Los estudios étnicos estadounidenses fueron espacios universitarios conquistados por las luchas de las minorías raciales al interior del imperio en los años sesentas y setentas, siendo así que desde su fundación estos estudios han sido atacados por la academia eurocéntrica. Este campo de conocimiento ha hecho aportaciones fundamentales al entendimi...
Despite formal decolonization, a global coloniality continues to exist : multiple and interrelated forms of domination based on gender, race, sexual practices, language, spirituality, etc. The decolonization of the world requires a new politics, beyond the assertions of identity in cultural studies and labor relations in Marxism. This new politics...
This article examines the complicity of academic paradigms and public policies with racist discourses and racial discrimination in the United States. From the most overt racial segregation policies and biological racist discourses to the most recent and covert forms of ‘color-blind racism’, the article discusses the shifting forms of racial discrim...
Este artículo discute las implicaciones epistemológicas del giro decolonial para la descolonizacion del concepto de «capitalismo global» tal y como se ha manejado en los paradigmas de la economía política y en los estudios culturales. Se discuten ademas los conceptos de «colonialidad del poder», «epistemologías fronterizas» y de «transmodernidad» p...
This article discusses the epistemic implications of the de-colonial turn of the decolonization of the «global capitalism» concept, as it has been used in the paradigms of political economy and cultural studies. Other terms that are discussed include «colonization of power», «border epistemologies» and «transmodernity» to start thinking not in «new...
The first part of this essay discusses Islamophobia as a form of racism in a world-historical perspective. The second part is a discussion of Islamophobia as a form of cultural racism. The third part is on Islamophobia as Orientalism. The fourth part is Islamophobia as epistemic racism, while the final part is an example of this using the case of E...
This article is an attempt to decolonize political-economy paradigms using five decolonial perspectives: world-systems analysis, coloniality of power, U.S. Third World feminism, Latin American philosophy of liberation, and border thinking. These decolonial perspectives emerged as part of the global struggles against decolonization that, although in...
The traditional distinction between race and ethnicity is considered highly problematic. In the literature, ethnicity is frequently assumed to be the cultural identity of a group within a nation state while race is assumed to be the biological and/or cultural essentialization/naturalization of a group based on a hierarchy of superiority and inferio...
This article discusses the Puerto Rican migration within the broader context of Caribbean migration to the United States. The first part is a discussion about the theoretical framework. The second part is a discussion about the historical origins of Caribbean migration to the United States. The third part discusses the post 1960’s Caribbean migrant...
"Innovative and illuminating, this book is exactly what we need at this time: an examination of specific instances which capture the features, the meaning and the implications of transnationalism. This volume is exciting because it includes a younger generation of researchers. One of the book's strengths is that it combines a focus on migration wit...
This article attempts to clarify some of the concepts and intellectual projects implied in the emerging critical dialogue between world-systems approach and postcolonial critique. It provides an alternative reading of the "modern world-system," or, as Walter Mignolo has recently proposed, the "modern/colonial world-system." It uses the world-system...
The category of “Latino” collapses the differences among populations with diverse historical experiences of oppression. We establish in this article a distinction within the Latino Caribbean diaspora among “immigrants/’ “colonial immigrants,” and “colonial/racial subjects” of the U.S. empire. Using the notion of “coloniality of power” developed by...
This article analyzes and compares the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of persons born abroad who immigrated to New York City after 1965 and still lived in the City in 1990. Using data from the 1990 Census, the authors classify persons into the 24 largest national origin groups and compare their demographic and socioeconomic character...
Nepantla: Views from South 1.2 (2000) 347-374
The Latin American dependentistas produced a knowledge that criticized the Eurocentric assumptions of the cepalistas, including the orthodox Marxist and the North American modernization theories. The dependentista school critique of stagism and developmentalism was an important intervention that transfo...
This article discusses Puerto Rican migration within the broader context of Caribbean migration to the USA. The first part discusses the theoretical framework. The labour market incorporation of migrants is conceptualised as a result of the sociopolitical modes of incorporation which among other dimensions include the US foreign policy/geo‐politics...
This article discusses the Puerto Rican migration within the broader context of Caribbean migration to the United States. The first part is a discussion about the theoretical framework. The second part is a discussion about the historical origins of Caribbean migration to the United States. The third part discusses the post 1960's Caribbean migrant...
Traditional sociological paradigms about immigrants in the United States have been based on approaches that privilege the concept of ethnicity: the assimilation school (Gordon; Park) and the cultural pluralist school (Glazer and Moynihan). Both were based on the migration experience of Europeans at the turn of the century.
This article compares the migration processes to, and the socio‐economic conditions of colonial Caribbean migrants in, the metropoles. Specifically, it discusses: 1) the formation of modern colonies in the Caribbean after World War II; 2) the differences between colonial Caribbean migrations and migrations from Caribbean nation‐states; 3) the diffe...
This article examines the different socio-economic consequences of migration for Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cubans, Jamaicans and Haitians in the context of New York City. Migration outcomes are structured by a range of influences, including geopolitics, class selectivity, de-industrialization, ethnic niches and the timing of settlement. Emphasis i...
Emphasis is on the five major insular migrations arriv ing in the United States during this century: Cubans, Dominicans, Haitians, Jamaicans, and Puerto Ricans. We briefly examine the historical origins of these outflows, focusing on the role of shifting external hegemony over the region and the resulting changes in economic structure. The long rel...
This is a co-editors’ introduction to the 2011 special issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, entitled “Decolonizing the University, Practicing Pluriversity,” including papers that were presented at the conference entitled Quelles universités et quels universalismes demain en Europe? un dialogue avec les Amériques...
This article discusses the concept of the Universal in the western philosophical tradition and proposes Other, decolonial ways to think about Uni-versality as Pluri-versality, based on the thinking of Aimé Cesaire, Enrique Dussel and the Zapatistas. The first part discusses the concept of "universal" from Descartes to Marx, covering Kant and Hegel....
This essay is an introduction by the co-organizers to the proceedings of the academic conference on “Debating Islamophobia” organized by Casa Árabe-IEAM, Spain, in collaboration with the Program of Comparative Ethnic Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies, U.C. Berkeley, in May 2009, published in the Fall 2010 issue of Human Architecture: Jour...
¿Es posible producir una política radical anti-sistémica mas allá de las políticas de identidad? ¿Es posible articular un cosmopolitanismo crítico mas allá de los discursos nacionalistas y el colonialistas? ¿Podemos superar la tradicional dicotomía entre los paradigmas de la economía política y los estudios culturales? ¿Es posible movernos mas allá...
El lector podrá hallar en este libro una colección de estudios en los que se pasa revista a expresiones del nacionalismo desde el periodo de la formación de las naciones hispanoamericanas en el siglo XIX hasta sus manifestaciones más contemporáneas. Los artículos muestran preocupaciones por el análisis de las relaciones de Latinoamérica con los Est...
Typescript. Abstract. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Temple University, 1992. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 375-392). Microfiche.
Translation of: Puerto Rican jam : essays on culture and politics. Typescript (photocopy). Translator's Thesis (M.A.)--Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (leaves xiv-xvii).
