The Decolonial Matter: Concepts and Debates

Abstract

Decolonization represents to Latin America the detachment from eurocentered bases of power, the disengagement of the modernity logic and an epistemic alternative other. This work develops from a hermeneutic perspective decolonization´s categories, concepts and debates that have developed-colonial intellectuals who make up the network such as Santos, Quijano, Gómez Castro, Dussel, Walsh, Mignolo, among others. This alternative tries to break the colonialism in all its forms, while dignifying experiences and Latin American culture, for it assumes as its premise the intercultural principle that guides the actions and thoughts both in social areas such as knowledge, trans-modernity and return to consciousness of the majority of mankind, their excluded
historical unconscious and a new episteme or an epistemology of the South, as a quest for knowledge that makes visible the cognitive practices historically oppressed by colonialism.