Kolonialita jako druhá tvář modernity. K současné latinskoamerické postkoloniální kritice modernity

• Authors: Veronika Sušová-Salminen

Title variants

EN

Coloniality as the Other Face of Modernity. On the Post-Colonial Critique of Modernity in Contemporary Latin America

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper focuses on the Latin American perspective on modernity, especially on the Peruvian sociologist Anibal Quijano's notion of coloniality. Coloniality is explained as a theoret- ical framework for critical reflection of modernity with an emphasis on the forms of knowledge (episteme) and on non-Western, more specifically Latin American historical experiences and perspectives. The aim is to introduce some Latin American efforts to critically understand coloniality as the other face of modernity and to develop a distinctive critique of capitalism, globalisation and Eurocentrism in their historical dynamics, In the first part, the paper briefly introduces Latin America as a geocultural place and a object of social research in a historical perspective. Special attention is paid to the question of racial classification and authenticity. In the second part, the paper focuses on the notion of coloniality as it was conceptualised by A. Quijano and by other Latin American authors. In the third and fourth parts, the paper deals with the problem of coloniality in wider epistemic contexts of modern social sciences and in relation to the notion of alterity and to the question of decolonisation of social scientific thinking. The final discussion addresses some of inspirational and problematic points of this conception such as problems of decolonisation, intellectual dependency and critique, and the problem of conceptualisation of differences in scientific discourses.

Keywords

EN

coloniality; Aníbal Quijano; modernity; Latin America; eurocentrism; decolonisation of social sciences postcolonial critique

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY
• OTHER_SOCIAL_SCIENCES: OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES
• POLITICAL_SCIENCES: POLITICAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, Czech Republic
• Journal: Historická sociologie (Historical Sociology)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 1-2
• Pages: 75-94

Contributors

author

Veronika Sušová-Salminen

• Pracoviště historické sociologie, FHS UK, U Kříže 8, 158 00 Praha - Jinonice (Czech republic)