Notes on modernity, decolonialism and cultural agency in Latin America

This article elaborates on how modernity is appropriated in Latin America in terms of its own decolonial disposition. Accordingly, it is reviewed to what extent cultural agency strategies are constitutive of a transgressive construction of a modernity from below. It is stated that the Latin American...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Leetoy, Salvador
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Ecuador
Institución:Revista CHASQUI
Repositorio:Revista CHASQUI
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.ciespal.org:article/2691
Acceso en línea:https://revistachasqui.org/index.php/chasqui/article/view/2691
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:modernity; cultural agency; eurocentrism; emancipatory politics
Humanidades. Estudios culturales.
modernidad; agencia cultural; eurocentrismo; políticas de emancipación
modernidade; agência cultural; eurocentrismo; políticas de emancipação
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Sumario:This article elaborates on how modernity is appropriated in Latin America in terms of its own decolonial disposition. Accordingly, it is reviewed to what extent cultural agency strategies are constitutive of a transgressive construction of a modernity from below. It is stated that the Latin American condition cannot be considered just as a mere ideological pastiche of discourses of premodernity, modernity and postmodernity, since such a view is buttressed on Eurocentric reductionisms. Hence, it is established that a contextual perspective of historical, political and social conditions is needed in order to understand our particular subaltern condition.