La descolonización cultural: hacia una transformación epistemológica y política de las relaciones culturales

Foreword

Abstract

Decolonization presupposes colonization. As a historical phenomenon, decolonization refers to the moment when colonies free themselves from imperial powers and achieve political independence. However, it is an essentially cultural process that former colonies must undertake after the political act of sovereignty in order to think and act with their own mindset, to reconnect with their own spirituality and thus shed the fate of the colonized. It is an act that, in essence, implies an accelerated and untimely march toward the modernity that these imperial powers have imposed for centuries.