Name: Ch'ixinakax Utxiwa: On Decolonising Practices and Discourses (Critical South)
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Author: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
ISBN: 9781509537839

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Ch'ixinakax Utxiwa: On Decolonising Practices and Discourses (Critical South)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

Publisher

Polity

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781509537839

Edition No.

Synopsis "Ch'ixinakax Utxiwa: On Decolonising Practices and Discourses (Critical South) "

The Bolivian scholar and activist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a pre-eminent Latin American intellectual, world renowned for her work in postcolonial and subaltern studies. She has long maintained that we must acknowledge how colonial structures of domination continue to affect indigenous identities and cultures. Even in contexts where diversity and the value of indigenous cultures have been officially recognized, “internal colonialism” operates as a structure that shapes mental categories and social practices. This book considers this persistent colonial structure by examining artistic and popular practices of apprehending and resisting it, arguing that in Andean cultures there is a sustained practice of insubordinate image production and use. Combining this visual history with other instances of political resistance, the book offers an alternative narrative to the history of Latin American decolonisation. This narrative challenges the common conception that mestizaje (race-mixing) and hybridity are liberatory formations, offering instead a new theorisation of the complex racial configurations produced by colonialism and its afterlives. Given Rivera Cusicanqui’s vital contribution to critical epistemologies, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences and to everyone concerned with the key questions of critical theory today.

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

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Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (La Paz, 1949) is a Bolivian sociologist, historian, and activist of Aymara descent, known for her critical thinking on coloniality, mestizaje, and indigenous epistemologies. Honorary Doctorate from Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and Universidad Nacional de San Luis, she has been a professor at UMSA for over three decades and founder of the Andean Oral History Workshop (THOA), from where she has promoted decolonizing methodologies. Her work has been fundamental in decolonial studies and in the analysis of social movements in Latin America.

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