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A Decolonial Philosophy of Indigenous Colombia
Philosophically addressing three fundamental aspects of the Kamëntšá, an indigenous culture located in the southwest of Colombia, this book is an investigation of how a native culture creates meaning. Time, beauty and spirit are key philosophical experiences within the Kamëntšá culture which should be interpreted both as constituting and as constituted symbols because of their historicity and actuality and their potential power of transformation. The book addresses these living symbols that take hold of the past but whose significance goes beyond their antiquity through the traditions of storytelling and dance, ritual, healing and ceremony as well as the fraught political histories of ...
A Decolonial Philosophy of Indigenous Colombia
Philosophically addressing three fundamental aspects of the Kamëntsá, an indigenous culture located in the southwest of Colombia, this book is an investigation of how a native culture creates meaning. Time, beauty and spirit are key philosophical experiences within the Kamëntsá culture which should be interpreted both as constituting and as constituted symbols because of their historicity and actuality and their potential power of transformation. The book addresses these living symbols that take hold of the past but whose significance goes beyond their antiquity through the traditions of storytelling and dance, ritual, healing and ceremony as well as the fraught political histories of co...
Constituted and Constituting Symbols of the Kamëntšá Culture
Drawing from child personal memories, stories, and participation in different ceremonies in Sibundoy (Colombia), as well as from scholarly papers and books on the Kamëntšá culture, a native culture settled in the southwest of Colombia, I discuss the constituted and constituting meanings of a native culture. The main argument is that storytelling, dancing, and yajé ceremonies are Kamëntšá's symbolic ways of approaching the quest for meaning. At once constituting and constituted symbols of it, Kamëntšá symbols define its culture and sustain it alive. I use the idea of constituting symbols to underlie the experiences of creativity and adjustment of Kamëntšá people to their historical circumstances and to its natural environment. And I use the concept of constituted symbols to indicate that symbols provide meaning and value to the life because they are historically rooted in the collective memory of the Kamëntšá culture.
Blackening Britain
Covering the period from the interwar years through the arrival of the steamship SS Empire Windrush from Jamaica in 1948 and culminating in the period of decolonization in the British Caribbean by the early 1970s, this project situates the development of networks of communication, categories of identification, and Caribbean radical politics both in the metropole and abroad. Blackening Britain explores how articulations of Caribbean identity formation corresponded to the following themes: organic collective action, political mobilization, cultural expressions of shared consciousness, and novel patterns of communication. Blackening Britain shows how colonial migrants developed tools of resista...
Systemic Violence of the Law
This book argues that International Investment Law system – IIL - was the result of a colonial project within a capitalist system that has been influenced by the developmentalism discourse and the neoliberal ideology, becoming an instrument that facilitated forms of systemic violence against Third World countries. In order to develop this argument, Enrique Prieto-Rios uses post-war critical thought, chiefly Fanon as interpreted by Lewis R Gordon, the works pursued by academics, part of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, the Institute for Global Law and Policy, the international law from below (southern perspectives), and critical economic thought— particularly the notable economic contributions of Ha-Joon Chang and Latin-American philosopher Enrique Dussel.
Confucianism and Phenomenology
With a focus on Confucian descriptions, this book carefully examines feeling, value and virtue and reveals the order of the heart by a phenomenological clarification of our personal and interpersonal experience.
Living Cultures
I hold that people's efforts to transmit their meaningfully and historically constructed values to their upcoming generations rely on living cultures. Since I assume that both universal values and particular values are meaningful, I will not privilege one or the other. I will rather unify them in what I have called living cultures. My hypothesis of living cultures is gradually presented in three chapters. Two recent Colombian real-life cases exhibiting the difficulties of unifying people's collective and individual rights are discussed in the first chapter. I argue that those real-life cases reveal the classical philosophical problem of how to understand individual and collective human value...
Reconfiguraciones de la epistemología en la filosofía contemporánea
Esta obra es el resultado de una reflexión colectiva acerca de las ideas de diversas corrientes actuales en epistemología, cuya incidencia impacta la investigación en las ciencias sociales y humanas. Mediante el trabajo dialógico, de un grupo de profesores y profesoras, hemos emprendido la tarea de hallar puntos de encuentro entre las propuestas de diversos enfoques epistemológicos que tradicionalmente se habían negado a asumir una posición de escucha y retroalimentación recíproca. Aprovechando la metáfora wittgensteiniana de "parecidos de familia" hemos puesto en deliberación las contribuciones del pragmatismo, la fenomenología, la hermenéutica fenomenológica, el posestructuralismo, las epistemologías del sur y las epistemologías feministas, con el fin de hacer énfasis en los vasos comunicantes e ideas comunes entre estos enfoques. Estas nuevas configuraciones de la epistemología están realizando aportes significativos tanto en los fundamentos ontológicos y epistemológicos de las ciencias sociales y humanas, como en la generación de recursos metodológicos.
Queer and Deleuzian Temporalities
Rachel Loewen Walker's original study of Deleuze's theory of temporality advances a concept of the living present as a critical juncture through which novel meanings and activisms take flight in relation to new feminist materialisms, queer theory, Indigenous studies, and studies of climate. Drawing on literature, philosophy, popular culture, and community research, Loewen Walker unsettles the fierce linearity of our stories, particularly as they uphold fixed systems of gender, sexuality, and identity. Treading new ground for Deleuzian studies, this book focuses on the non-linearity of the living present to show that everything is within rather than outside of time. Through this critical re-evaluation, which takes in climate change, queer and trans politics, and Indigenous sovereignty, Queer and Deleuzian Temporalities “thickens” the present moment. By opening up multiple pasts and multiple futures we are invited to act with a deepened level of accountability to all possible timelines.
Frantz Fanon
Focusing on the contributions of Frantz Fanon's writing to the construction of a theory of the postcolonial subject, this book engages post-structuralist discussions on subjectivity and explores the most important readings and discussions of Fanon's work. Problems such as historicity, contingency, and the positions of the subject in postcolonial contexts receive special attention together with phenomenological approaches to Fanonian writing. The central idea is to give Fanon a privileged place in social, political, and cultural analysis. The objectives of the book are to insert Fanon’s texts in contemporary critical theory on modernity and coloniality and to incorporate Fanon in the epistemological and conceptual context of the academy. This innovative work allows us to understand Fanon’s writing as key to linking the experiences and critical developments between the global south and the global north.
