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Expanded Course Description
In this class, we will review contemporary approaches to social and political philosophy from a decolonial perspective. Unlike many of the ancient and modern Western approaches to political philosophy, focused on an abstract reflection on the kind of society that we could or should construct, we will base our analysis in studying the history of how our political present came to be what it is. In our particular present, this history is marked by the colonial construction of racial, gendered, and economic categories constituting and epistemic and political system that can be theorized as one of coloniality, still operating today.
We will deal with questions, such as: What does the construction of systems of oppression under coloniality say about the materiality of the political realms we inhabit? Does it point only to structures of oppression, or does it also involve practices and possibilities of resistance and liberation. Do we get to imagine new ways of being together, politically, by analyzing, for example, the history of the colonization of the Americas? Or does this analysis constitute a completely unforeseen (unforeseeable?) endeavor?
