Struggles for Liberation in Abya Yala

Perspectives from the people who have chosen to rebel and act in solidarity against the system that oppresses them

In Struggles for Liberation in Abya Yala, a diverse team of well-established and rising scholars addresses the various struggles for social justice, liberation, and freedom in the US, México, and Latin America. Incorporating philosophical tradition with influence in Africana philosophy, feminism, critical race theory, ethics, and political philosophy, this provocative new volume demonstrates and advances the explanatory and normative power of Philosophy of Liberation and the Decolonial Turn through in-depth theoretical analysis of current and emerging social changes.

Throughout the book, academic scholars and on-the-ground activists encourage readers to resist, take direct collective action, and stand with social movements that fight against injustice. The authors offer critiques of the colonial relationships that facilitate exploitation, promote social mobilization through the decolonization of Westernized educational practices, consider the role that gender plays in understandings of oppressive structures, discuss the animal rights movement in Latin America, identify challenges faced by Latinx philosophers and critical race scholars, and much more.

Illustrating the reach, impact, and implications of radical social transformations, Struggles for Liberation in Abya Yala is a must-read for undergraduate and graduate students, educators and university lecturers, academic researchers and scholars, social and political activists, policymakers, journalists and media professionals, and general readers who are committed to liberation.

List of contents

Notes on Contributors v
Introduction 1
Ernesto Rosen Velásquez and Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda
Section I Theoretical Approaches 9
1 Liberation Philosophy and the Search for Combative Decoloniality: A Fanonian Approach 11
Nelson Maldonado- Torres
2 Decolonizing Understanding: A Utopian Reading of Aníbal Quijano's Coloniality of Power and Knowledge 29
Alejandro Vallega
3 Transmodernity as a Postulate: First Eurocentrism, Prejudice, and Critique 43
Enrique Téllez Fabiani
Section II Gender 59
4 Reflections on the Erotics of Liberation: A Contemporary, Feminist Latin American Perspective 61
AFyL Women Collective
5 Sylvia Wynter's Gender and Genre for a Queer and Trans- inclusive Politics 73
Elisabeth Paquette
Section III Education 85
6 Struggles to Make Black Lives Matter 87
Ernesto Rosen Velásquez
7 In the Trap of Critique: Making Decolonization Metaphor 105
Stephanie Rivera Berruz
8 Education in Latin America: Decolonization as an Ethical-Political Urgency 116
Nadia Heredia
9 Philosophy of Liberation Praxis in Mexico City 127
Gabriel Herrera Salazar
Section IV Social Movements 139
10 Experiences of Weaving: The Chilean Social Revolt as an Esthetic Proposal 141
Paloma Griffero
11 Migration Justice in Times of Pandemics in the Borderland of Ciudad Juárez/El Paso 161
Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda
12 Latin American Animal Ethics 173
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes and Amy Reed- Sandoval
13 Zapata Revisited: Views on the Zapatista National Liberation Army 182
Ernesto Castañeda
14 Decolonizing Peyote Politics in Mexico and Southwest U.S. 197
Osiris Sinuhé González Romero
Index 211

About the author

LUIS RUBÉN DÍAZ CEPEDA is Assistant Professor in the Humanities Department, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. His research focuses on ethics, borders, social movements, critical theory, and philosophy of liberation. He is author of Social Movements and Latin American Philosophy: From Ciudad Juárez to Ayotzinapa and co-editor of Latin American Immigration Ethics. ERNESTO ROSEN VELÁSQUEZ is Associate Professor at the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Dayton, Ohio, USA. He specializes in Latinx philosophy, critical philosophy of race, and political philosophy. He is co-editor of Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education From Within and Without.

Summary

Presents struggles for liberation in the Americas from the perspectives of structural victims

Struggles for Liberation in Abya Yala explores the ways people occupying different positionalities respond to various catastrophes while discussing how collective processes of struggle make new meanings and create new forms of relationality and subjectivity. Bringing together contributions by a diverse panel of well-established voices and rising scholars, this provocative volume challenges readers to resist, take direct collective action, organize, protest, and give proper uptake to social movements that fight against injustice and life-threatening conditions.

Operating primarily within the context of "Abya Yala" -- the term deployed by indigenous peoples to refer to the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean -- the volume demonstrates and advances the explanatory and normative power of Philosophy of Liberation and the Decolonial Turn through theoretical analysis of current social changes unfolding in the Americas. Throughout the book, academic scholars and on-the-ground activists illustrate the reach, impact, and implications of radical social transformations that support victims of the system.

Offering perspectives from the people who have chosen to rebel and act in solidarity against the system that oppresses them, Struggles for Liberation in Abya Yala:
* Addresses different struggles for social justice in the US, México and Latin America
* Draws from philosophical tradition with influence in Africana philosophy, feminism, critical race theory, ethics, and political philosophy
* Tasks readers to fight for reparations, stand in solidarity with marginalized and indigenous peoples, and abolish dispossession
* Critiques the capitalist and colonial relationships that facilitate the exploitation of large segments of the population
* Promotes social mobilization through education and the decolonization of Westernized university and educational practices

An urgent call to action for all those seeking to fundamentally change the world, Struggles for Liberation in Abya Yala is a must-read for undergraduate and graduate students, educators and university lecturers, academic researchers and scholars, social and political activists, policymakers, journalists and media professionals, and general readers who are committed to liberation.

Product details

• Authors: Luis Ruben (Universidad Autonoma De C Diaz Cepeda, Ernesto Rosen Diaz Cepeda Velasquez
• Assisted by: Luis Ruben Diaz Cepeda (Editor), Ernesto Rosen Velasquez (Editor), Velasquez Ernesto Rosen (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2024
• EAN: 9781394181230
• ISBN: 978-1-394-18123-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Philosophie, Politikwissenschaft, Lateinamerika, Politik, Political Science, Philosophy, Weltphilosophie, Latin American Politics, World Philosophy, Politik / Lateinamerika, Philosophy of Race, Rassenphilosophie, Abya Yala