Coloniality of power, culture and knowledge in Latin America

Authors

  • Aníbal Quijano Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Peru

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/espiral.v5i10.27862

Keywords:

cultural reoriginalization, coloniality of power, Eurocenrism, modern/colonial power pattern, historical-structural dependence

Abstract

Aníbal Quijano’s essay, written in 1997, opens up some fundamental questions to understand the profound transformations that are occurring in the material and intersubjective relations of power in Peru and in Latin America and the Caribbean. The central core of the analysis revolves around the conflict, which has dominated the history of our societies from the constitution of America to the present, between the trends that are directed towards a cultural reoriginalization and those that are aimed at maintaining and even deepening the coloniality of power. In order to base this analysis, it explores the characteristics and tendencies of the “historical experience of the formation of the coloniality of power in America”, on the one hand, and on the other, the heterogeneous processes of subversion and cultural reoriginalization, the most significant being the one determined by the emergence of the cholo group that was oriented in the direction of a “democratic redistribution of authority.”

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Published

2023-12-31

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Section

Classics

How to Cite

Quijano, A. (2023). Coloniality of power, culture and knowledge in Latin America. Espiral, Revista De geografías Y Ciencias Sociales, 5(10), 105-114. https://doi.org/10.15381/espiral.v5i10.27862