Dialogue with Quijano

Coloniality as a category to understand the environment built in the modern/colonial world-system

Authors

  • Yasser Farrés Delgado Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/rsoc.v0i28.16895

Keywords:

Anibal Quijano, coloniality, territory, city, architecture

Abstract

It could be argued that, with the notion of the coloniality of power, Aníbal Quijano opened to per- spective of analysis on the reality of the modern world-system whose potential exceeds the limits of reflection outlined by him. In this sense, this essay argues the relevance of applying such a perspective to the understanding of the modern and contemporary built environment. For this, starting from a review of the initial concepts of the author and other later ones, an proposed theorization for said scope of knowledge is exposed, centered on the notion “territorial coloniality”. Subsequently a state of the art of research is exposed in the same line.

Author Biography

  • Yasser Farrés Delgado, Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia

    Arquitecto por el Instituto Superior Politécnico “José Antonio Echeve-rría” (CUJAE), Cuba. Doctor en Urbanismo, Ordenación del Territorio y Medioambiente por la Universidad de Granada, España. Docente de la Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia; y la Universidad de Zaragoza, España.

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Published

2019-10-17

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Section

Studies

How to Cite

Dialogue with Quijano: Coloniality as a category to understand the environment built in the modern/colonial world-system. (2019). Revista De Sociología, 28, 49-64. https://doi.org/10.15381/rsoc.v0i28.16895