Eduardo Zarate is a research professor at El Colegio de Michoacán. Last books published: Zárate, Eduardo and Jorge Uzeta (eds.) (2016). Languages of political fragmentation. Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán; Zárate, Eduardo (2017). The celebration of childhood. The cult of the Child Jesus in the Purhépecha area.. Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán; Oikión, Verónica and José Eduardo Zárate (eds.) (2019). Michoacán. politics and society. Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán; Zárate, Eduardo (ed.) (2022). Communities, utopias and futures. Zamora: The College of Michoacán.

Temáticas

Community utopias as bets for the future among the Purhépecha people

  • Eduardo Zarate

In this paper we show how organizations and projects anchored in the contemporary indigenous community are structured around imaginaries of the desirable future. We take up the idea of utopia as referring to the possible in order to understand the effects of ethnic claims on the communities themselves. As an orientation towards the future, we discuss the limitations and scope of the concept of utopia for its use as an explanatory category. The empirical referent is the forty-year experience of a Purhépecha community that has mobilized to achieve its recognition.

Coloquios interdisciplinarios

Comment on the colloquium "Beyond decoloniality: discussion of some key concepts" by
  • David Lehmann
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The other voices of decolonialism. Commentary to "Beyond decoloniality: discussion of some key concepts" by David Lehmann.

  • Eduardo Zarate

This brief commentary seeks to engage in a dialogue with David Lehmann's proposal to go beyond decolonialism. It is emphasized that decolonialism is more than an academic fad in Latin America. Decolonialist thought presents political and ethical dimensions critical of Western universalism, necessary to understand the claims for recognition of subaltern groups.