Descolonización, decolonialidad, poder y raza: lo que los profesionales de la sociedad civil y el desarrollo de medios pueden aprender de las becas académicas

MARÍA SOLEDAD SEGURA

Mesa redonda; Posner Center for International Development Symposium; 2021

Roundtable Discussion on - Decolonization, Decoloniality, Power and Race: What Civil Society and Media Development Practitioners Can Learn from Academic Scholarship", en: Posner Center for International Development Symposium, Washington DC, 12 de noviembre de 2021. Con Silvio Waisbord (George Washington University), Viola Milton (University of South Africa), Winston Mano (University of Westminster) y moderado por Susan Abott (Counterpart International).The 1989 Aníbal Quijano?s thesis of the ?coloniality of power ? suggested that the end of the colonial period did not imply the overcoming of the ways of looking and thinking that reproduce the subordinate and Eurocentric position imposed in that period. It shows that Modernity was also the time of coloniality and oppression. Its resolution would require the transformation of the epistemologies with which we structure our thinking. In the 2000 Walter Mignolo called for "decolonization" with the creation of a "border thinking" that is inside and outside Modernity.In my view, there are two main and conective learnings of this approach. The first one is the focus on understanding how the unequal historical and current power relations impact the way we categorize the world and the way we think solutions to the problems of our society. The point of view is related to the position from where we look and that position is not only theoretical but also social. And the second one is the atention on dependant countries and subaltern people -because of class, gender, race, generation, religion, sexuality, country of origin or any other characteristic-.