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Coloquios interdisciplinarios
Vol 6 No 12 (2023)
Comment on the colloquium "Beyond decoloniality: discussion of some key concepts" by - David Lehmann
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Criticizing Decoloniality and Its Criticism
- Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
The exercise of critique is one of the main ways of improving debates in the social sciences. In this sense, David Lehmann's text is welcome. However, I do not fully agree with several aspects of his criticisms. I highlight, in particular, his denial of the historically objective character of racism and its consequences, and his failure to consider the complexity of the articulations within and between which contemporary indigenous movements move. I also find his conceptions of universalism debatable. But I agree with his view that there is a simplification of Western thought and modernity by decolonials, a strong critique also made a few years ago by one of the founders of decolonial thought, Santiago Castro-Gómez, which I present in my text. Finally, I expose my disagreements with what I call the heuristic hypertrophy of colonialism made by decolonials and introduce, in addition to the coloniality of power, the notions of indigeneity, nationality, globality and imperiality of power.