COURSE DESCRIPTION

Modernity has a dark side to it, colonialism, without which it would not have come into being. The history of coloniality is that of an imposition of power structures at various levels: economic, epistemic, political, and racial and gender-based. This coloniality of power did not end with the process of decolonization experienced with the independence movements and formation of the Latin American countries in the early 19th century. It continues in the subjugation, throught that matrix of colonial power, of millions of inhabitants of the hemisphere. Decolonial thought attempts to uncover the different legacies of subjection and oppression still ocurring. In this sense, it aims to counter the Eurocentric narrative determining the course of the world, creating spaces of contestation and resistance and undoing some of the constructs that support the idea of one global hisory inexhorably advancing towards a better, more prosperous and free, future.