Decolonizing time through communalizing spatial practices

This chapter analyses spatializing practices that are currently enhancing communalizing processes, through which Latin-American movements trace alternative decolonizing horizons to developmentalist temporalities. These practices are organized into four horizons of struggle: (1) Resisting the subalternization of the region by taking the communal as a key reference for interpreting their territories, and thus showing the temporal connections between development and different forms of violence, including colonial violence; (2) defending the relational character of the territory by articulating processes of communalization, which highlights a temporality of co-dependency networks; (3) repoliticizing the reproduction of life by the production of the common, and thus making a claim for a temporality of long-standing resistances; and finally (4) recentering use value by the collectivization of knowledge, which warns against irreversible damages. Based on these horizons of struggle, we close by highlighting four ways to expand post-developmentalist agendas.