Articles about "indigenous peoples"

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Comment on the colloquium "Beyond decoloniality: discussion of some key concepts" by
  • David Lehmann
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Indigenous Mobilization and Decolonization in Latin America: Some Ideas for Discussion

  • Santiago Bastos

Keywords: decolonization, decolonial turn, indigenous mobilization, indigenous peoples.

Drawing on several of the ideas contained in David Lehmann's text "Beyond Decoloniality: A Discussion of Some Key Concepts" (2023), in this paper I propose a different way of understanding the relationship between indigenous mobilization in Latin America in recent decades, decolonial studies and other forms of what I call "the colonial framework". The central argument develops around indigenous mobilization, which I see as changing and in a process of complexification, in which relations to ideas of decolonization are evident, but not the only ones informing its political action. By taking these two elements into account, the relationship between mobilization, decolonization and democracy is understood in a different way and with different consequences than those proposed by Lehmann.