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Decolonizing the language

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    Colombia

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Research fields

Decoloniality and language; Critical interculturality; Genetics of meaning

Organization profile

Decoloniality is the prospective commitment of the Modernity/Coloniality - Decoloniality program.The authors of the decolonial turn are committed to a vindication of the places of enunciation silenced by modern Eurocentered rationality.However, beyond their Latin American origin, the decolonial commitment comes, in general, from various criticisms that emerge from places whose experience of modernity was that of coloniality, and consequently, that of the inferiorization and marginalization of their knowledge, as well as that of their possibility of self-determination.This is how postcolonial studies from India and the Middle East, or cultural studies from the United Kingdom, the Indigènes de la République in France as an anticolonial movement, all react to the imposition of the Eurocentric model and resist homogenization in terms of globalization.The academic literature is prolific and addresses various areas of reality particularly present in the aforementioned experience of Modernity, such as racism, colonialism, gender, the epistemological and the social, politics and the social construction of meaning, etc.

Área de conocimiento (OCDE)

  • Social Sciences

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  1. SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
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  2. SDG 4 - Quality Education
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  3. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality
  4. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  5. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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