Volume 2, Dossier 1 (Fall 2007) • Contents
On Decoloniality
Introduction to the Dossier
Walter Mignolo, Coordinator
Articles
¿Es posible descolonizar la Universidad?
Zulma PALERMO
Zulma Palermo addresses the decolonization of the university from her experience at the Universidad Nacional de Saltain Argentina. This essay is a reflection on a university-based project, which has parallels with the cultural studies PhD program at the Universidad Simón Bolívar, Quito, that engages decolonial knowledge and understanding. Palermo is working on this endeaveour with colleagues in the schools of agronomy and of economy at Salta. This de-colonial interdisciplinary project, between the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences, places her in conversation with the contributions of Ibarra-Colado (in Mexico) and de Souza Silva (in Brazil) in this dossier.
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Tendencias dominantes de nuestra época ¿Se nos agota el tiempo?
Edgardo LANDER
Edgardo Lander engages five of the many global processes animating the contemporary moment, and he argues that destruction of the conditions of life, growing mercantilization, permanent state of war, decline of liberal democracy and the multiple forms of resistance are the main tendencies that conform the present and future of mankind and life. He then points to the possibilities of building democratic, egalitarian, culturally plural and diverse societies that can live in peace and celebrate life rather than war. His vision for the future employs a counter-cultural and decolonial method that pays attention to local and particular forms of resistance. Click here for an English version of Lander's article.
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Organization Studies and Epistemic Coloniality in Latin America: Thinking Otherness from the Margins
Eduardo IBARRA-COLADO
Eduardo Ibarra-Colado discusses the current state of Organization Studies in Latin America, disclosing the epistemic coloniality that prevails in the region. Adopting an approach based on the recognition of the relevance of the geopolitical space as place of enunciation, he argues for the relevance of the ‘outside’ and ‘otherness’ to understand organizational realities in Latin America. Ibarra-Colado concludes by renewing the urgency of appreciating the organizational problems of Latin America from the outside by proposing a preliminary research agenda built from original approaches that recognize otherness.
El Emprendimiento Social en el Cambio de Época
José de SOUZA SILVA
By assuming that humanity is experiencing another change of epoch since the 60s, José de Souza Silva (i) situates entrepreneurship in historical perspective; (ii) characterizes the ongoing crisis of the paradigmatic crisis of industrialism; and (iii) synthesizes the emerging global scenarios and their implications to social enterprises. Among the emerging metaphors of the machine, arena, and ágora derived from the corresponding cybernetic, market, and contextual worldviews, he proposes the ágora as the one most favorable to the social enterprise. Finally, he argues that the social entrepreneur is a central figure as societies reimagine civil society and the common good.
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