{"id":1000,"date":"2019-08-06T11:12:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T11:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/din.today\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2019-08-06T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T14:23:44","slug":"about-the-decolonial-thought-community-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/din.today\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"About the Decolonial Thought Community in Latin America[:es]Sobre la Comunidad de Pensamiento Decolonial in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Decolonial Thought Community<\/em> is a Latin American collective network of political action and decolonial thought based in Mexico and Ecuador. Born as an idea on June 7, 2017, it was originally conceived as a small online hub to spread the decolonial question and translate some articles and recorded lessons of some Latin American decolonial thinkers who remained invisible in discussions outside Latin America, but we were also interested in contributing to the contact between the different decolonial traditions of the global south. At first, the Ecuadorian anthropologist Ren\u00e9 Toapanta Mej\u00eda (Salesian Polytechnic University) who had a special interest in Latin American colonial history and the Mexican economist Ulises Tamayo P\u00e9rez (Polytechnic State University of St. Petersburg) who at that time carried out a critical research on social economy from the decolonial point of view, engaged in that project creating the site Decolonial Thought Community<\/em> which has currently over 1800 members. In November 2017, following our participation in a forum where the importance of the relationship between feminism and coloniality was discussed, we established bonds of affinity with the Mexican internationalist Mil\u00e9n Arag\u00f3n Dominguez (Benemerita Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Puebla), who came into contact with decolonial critiques while studying the communitary feminism<\/em>, she soon joined the community. After some meetings and reflections we glimpsed the need for a shift to local action, from then on we tried to open spaces for discussion of the decolonial question. In February 2018 we inaugurated at the Autonomous University of Tlaxcala (Mexico) the first diploma course on Decolonial Studies in the country and probably in the continent, it was a free course that lasted around 6 months and to which around 25 people attended, the course allowed us to establish links with activists and local academics. In April 2018 we took part in the congress “Thinking psychology in the light of our realities”, putting on the discussion table the relationship between gender and coloniality; In January of the following year we organized a seminar on the rebellions in colonial America, a reading from Walter Benjamin’s diachronic-political analysis to which even attendees from nearby cities attended and at the same time we began to organize the second edition of the Diploma in Decolonial Studies inviting notable Latin American decolonial thinkers, this event did not take place due to some administrative requirements within the universities that would host the project, on May 9 of the same year we held a conversation session with Nelson Maldonado about the Coloniality of Being<\/em> at the Center of Studies for Economic and Social Development of the Autonomous University of Puebla (where Mil\u00e9n Arag\u00f3n and Ulises Tamayo carry out their Phd studies), between July 15 and 17 we organized a small Introductory Course to Decolonial Thought with around 40 attendees from different cities, also, during the summer, we committed ourselves to lead some study groups of left-wing political activists in some municipalities of our state. During the course of these activities we have been weaving links with activists, collectives and organizations (feminists, students, politicians and cultural) at the local level, for us are both important, articulation and political praxis, of course, we believe in the grass roots activism and autonomies, but we also believe in the intervention and action at the macro institutional level and we are conscious too of the necessity to consider the geopolitical situation in a global level, therefore, we are interested in the intercultural dialogue and the linkage, above all of the Global South.[:es]La comunidad de pensamiento decolonial es una red colectiva latinoamericana de acci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica y pensamiento decolonial con sede en M\u00e9xico y Ecuador. Naci\u00f3 como idea el 7 de Junio del a\u00f1o 2017, originalmente se concibi\u00f3 como un peque\u00f1o hub en linea que permitiera difundir la cuesti\u00f3n decolonial y traducir algunos art\u00edculos y lecciones grabadas de algunos pensadores decoloniales latinoamericanos que permanec\u00edan invisibles en las discusiones fuera de Am\u00e9rica Latina, pero tambi\u00e9n nos interesaba contribuir al contacto entre las distintas tradiciones decoloniales del sur global. En un primer momento en ese proyecto nos embarcamos el antropologo ecuatoriano Ren\u00e9 Toapanta Mej\u00eda (Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica Salesiana) que ten\u00eda especial inter\u00e9s en la historia colonial latinoamericana y el economista m\u00e9xicano Ulises Tamayo P\u00e9rez (Universidad Estatal Polit\u00e9cnica de San Petersburgo) qui\u00e9n por entonces llevaba a cabo una investigaci\u00f3n cr\u00edtica sobre la econom\u00eda social desde la visi\u00f3n decolonial, creamos entonces la p\u00e1gina Decolonial Thought Community<\/em> que cuenta ahora con poco m\u00e1s de 1800 miembros. En noviembre del 2017 a ra\u00edz de nuestra participaci\u00f3n en un foro en d\u00f3nde se discuti\u00f3 la importancia de la relaci\u00f3n entre feminismo y colonialidad establecimos lazos de afinidad con la internacionalista mexicana Mil\u00e9n Arag\u00f3n Dominguez (Benemerita Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Puebla) que entr\u00f3 en contacto con las cr\u00edticas decoloniales mientras estudiaba el feminismo comunitario<\/em>, y que al poco tiempo se incorpor\u00f3 a la comunidad. Despu\u00e9s de algunas reuniones y reflexiones vislumbramos la necesidad de un giro hacia la acci\u00f3n local, a partir de entonces comenzamos a tratar de abrir espacios para la discusi\u00f3n de la cuesti\u00f3n decolonial. En Febrero del 2018 inauguramos en la Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Tlaxcala, M\u00e9xico, el primer Diplomado en Estudios Decoloniales<\/em> del pa\u00eds y probablemente del continente, se trat\u00f3 de un curso gratuito que dur\u00f3 alrededor de 6 meses y al que asistieron y finalizaron cerca de 25 personas, el curso nos permiti\u00f3 establecer vinculos con activistas y acad\u00e9micos locales. En abril del 2018 intervenimos en el congreso “Pensar la psicolog\u00eda a la luz de nuestras realidades” poniendo sobre la mesa de discusi\u00f3n la relaci\u00f3n entre g\u00e9nero y colonialidad; en enero del siguiente a\u00f1o organizamos un seminario sobre las rebeliones en la Am\u00e9rica colonial, una lectura desde el an\u00e1lisis diacr\u00f3nico-pol\u00edtico de Walter Benjamin al que acudieron incluso asistentes de ciudades cercanas y al mismo tiempo empezamos a organizar la segunda edici\u00f3n del Diplomado en Estudios Decoloniales<\/em> invitando a notables pensadores decoloniales latinoamericanos, dicho evento no se pudo llevar a cabo debido a algunos requerimentos administrativos al interior de las universidades que acoger\u00edan el proyecto, el 9 mayo del mismo a\u00f1o llevamos a cabo un conversatorio con Nelson Maldonado sobre la Colonialidad del Ser en el Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Econ\u00f3mico y Social, de la Benemerita Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Puebla (en d\u00f3nde Mil\u00e9n Arag\u00f3n y Ulises Tamayo llevan a cabo sus estudios de doctorado), entre el 15 y el 17 de Julio organizamos un peque\u00f1o Curso Introductorio al Pensamiento Decolonial<\/em> con cerca de 40 asistentes, tambi\u00e9n, durante el verano, nos comprometimos a guiar algunos grupos de estudio de militantes pol\u00edticos de izquierda en algunos municipios de nuestro estado. Durante el curso de estas actividades hemos ido tejiendo vinculos con activistas, colectivos y organizaciones (feministas, estudiantiles, pol\u00edticas y culturales) en el nivel local, para nosotros es importante la articulaci\u00f3n y praxis pol\u00edtica, desde luego, creemos en la acci\u00f3n de base y las autonom\u00edas, pero tambi\u00e9n creemos en la intervenci\u00f3n y acci\u00f3n al nivel macro institucional y estamos conscientes tambi\u00e9n de la necesidad de considerar la situaci\u00f3n geopol\u00edtica en un nivel global, por tanto, nos interesa el dialogo intercultural y la vinculaci\u00f3n, sobretodo del Sur Global.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Decolonial Thought Community is a Latin American collective network of political action and decolonial thought based in Mexico and Ecuador. Born as an idea on June 7, 2017, it was originally conceived as a small online hub to spread the decolonial question and translate some articles and recorded lessons of some Latin American decolonial … Continue reading About the Decolonial Thought Community in Latin America[:es]Sobre la Comunidad de Pensamiento Decolonial in Mexico<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019_08","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}