Latin America in perspective: ECLAC thinking and decolonial approach

Latin America as a geographic and epistemic place with multiple characteristics has produced tensions towards modernity/coloniality. From this, the essay aims to understand the relationship between the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the decolonial perspective. Tw...

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Authors: Mazzetti, Antônio Carlos, Wedig, Josiane Carine, Perondi, Miguel Angelo, Rubin-Oliveira, Marlize
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2021
Country:Brasil
Institution:Associação Nacional de Pós-graduação e Pesquisa em Planejamento Urbano e Regional (ANPUR)
Repository:Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais (Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.rbeur.anpur.org.br:article/6505
Online Access:https://rbeur.anpur.org.br/rbeur/article/view/6505
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:América Latina
Desenvolvimento
Cepal
Perspectiva Decolonial
Centro x Periferia
Latin America
Development
ECLAC
Approach Decolonial
Center x Periphery
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Summary:Latin America as a geographic and epistemic place with multiple characteristics has produced tensions towards modernity/coloniality. From this, the essay aims to understand the relationship between the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the decolonial perspective. Two approaches originating in Latin America that focus on social, political, economic, and environmental issues. Therefore, the path taken seeks, from a socio-historical perspective, to understand these perspectives from their main intellectuals, contexts and proposals. Finally, it is concluded that these are perspectives of thought that, despite the diverse and distinct paths, have objectives that intertwine and dialogue. Understanding approaches and relationships made it possible to highlight important aspects in the search for alternatives to the hegemonic rationality of exclusions and dependencies imposed and perpetuated since colonization.