

Presented by Prof. Carolina Pizarro Cortes (Universidad de Santiago de Chile) and Prof. José Santos-Herceg (Universidad de Santiago de Chile)
Sponsored by: Latin American Research Cluster, Dorothy Dallas Fund
About the talk:
Latin American liberationist thought (“pensamiento liberacionista”) has an extensive tradition. At the center of its reflections is the status of the “other” subject within the context of Eurocentric modernity, whose origin is located in the period of the conquest of the South American continent. From this point of view, colonial domination – which manifests itself to this day as coloniality – produced an oppressive value hierarchy in which American subjects, as well as their natural world, were left in a situation of inferiority that made them “available” for the Westerners. Starting from this premise, we would like to address some of the most relevant milestones of Latin America’s “pensamiento liberacionista,” whose critical diagnosis constitutes a contribution to contemporary debates on the relationship between the human and non-human and on nature as a subject of rights.
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