Dear María de Mater O'Neill, Rafael, Fernando, Yoad, Eduardo, Gunnar and
Ken:
Querida María,
Aplausos, una maravillosa nota la referencia a Memmi
<http://www.jesusradicals.com/uploads/2/6/3/8/26388433/the_colonizer_and_the_colonized_-_albert_memmi,_jean-paul_sartre,_nadine_gordimer_%281991%29.pdf>:
like you, I live, love, feel, think, an design within the 'buzzwords'
Unidos en el empeño por abrir espacio a un mundo donde quepan muchos
mundos...
Querido Rafael:
Muchas gracias por tu maravillosa respuesta a mi colega el profesor
Fernando Álvarez, me conmovió sobremanera, a very nice reunion with our
common Colombian heritage...
Dear Fernando:
Gracias por abrir decolonialmente esta lista al camino del bilenguajeo, una
entrañable muestra de Geopolitics of Sensing and Knowing On
(De)Coloniality, Border Thinking, and Epistemic Disobedience
<http://eipcp.net/transversal/0112/mignolo/en>.
Dear Yoad:
Somme coments on the chicken issue:
It causes me some curiosity that apparently you write to Ken to point out some
advice to the creators of the Decolonising Design platform, Pedro Oliveira,
Mahmoud Keshavarz, Danah Abdulla, Ece Canli, Matt Kiem, Tristan Schultz your
suggestion about adding a glossary to the platform is wonderful and I think
it will make much sense, so I why not consider suggesting it directly to
them?
Some possible contributions to the possible glossary (how about a visit to
the hyperlinks?de repente más de galimatías, el asunto se refiera a
conceptos interesantes. who knows? :
Postcoloniality
<https://decolonizedlibrarian.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/postcolonialityies/>
Decoloniality <http://globalsocialtheory.org/topics/decoloniality/>
Colonial understandings
<https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/understanding-colonizer-status/>,
Coloniality of power <https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/%7Emarto/coloniality.htm>,
[(Highly recommended) is The Coloniality of Power: Notes Toward
De-Colonization by Steve Martinot] or much more complete yet, Anibal
Quijano` <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anibal_Quijano>s work:
Coloniality of Power,Eurocentrism, and Latin America
<https://www.unc.edu/%7Eaescobar/wan/wanquijano.pdf>
Colonial imperatives
<http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-29349-3_13>,
Colonial matrix of power.
<http://www.codesria.org/IMG/pdf/2-Coloniality_of_Power_Ndlovu_Chapter_2.pdf>
Quijano (2007: 168-178) identified the key contours of the
colonial matrix of power as consisting of four interrelated domains:
control of
economy; control of authority, control of gender and sexuality; and, control
of subjectivity and knowledge.
Dear professor Eduardo Corte-Real, somme coments on the buzz word issue:
--Sometimes buzzwords, become the basis of academic journals, such as (and
I invite you all to take a tour of hyperlinks):
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society
http://decolonization.org/index.php/des
--Sometimes academic courses are made on buzzwords and suddenly appear
schools with teachers who teach about it:
http://www.dialogoglobal.com/barcelona/
--Sometimes there are lectures to explain the origin of the buzzwords (for
instance,
about decoloniality): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLfQKuEwHQ0
--Sometimes the buzzwords suggest problematic differences, for example,
colonialism, is not the same as colonization:
I use the word 'colonialism' to refer to 'colonial situations' enforced by
the presence of a colonial administration such as the period of classical
colonialism, and, following Quijano (1991) Quijano (1993) Quijano (1998), I
use* 'coloniality'* to address 'colonial situations' in the present period
in which colonial administrations have almost been eradicated from the
capitalist world-system. By 'colonial situations' I mean the cultural,
political, sexual, spiritual, epistemic and economic
oppression/exploitation of subordinate racialized/ethnic groups by dominant
racialized/ethnic groups with or without the existence of colonial
administrations." He goes on to say that "The mythology about the
'decolonization of the world' obscures the continuities between the
colonial past and current global colonial/racial hierarchies and
contributes to the invisibility of 'coloniality' today."
http://decolonizingsolidarity.blogspot.com.co/2012/04/coloniality-vs-colonialism.html?m=1
By the way, Ken you are completely right when you point:
It seems to me that the people who launched the Decolonizing Design
platform are not responding to ancient history, but to the current
situation in the world, so kuddos to you, and as always thak you four your
contributions
--Sometimes there are academics with doctoral degrees, writing about buzzwords,
such as:
Ramon Grosfoguel
<http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/faculty-profile/ramon-grosfoguel-1>:
(professor at Berkley) see
Ramón Grosfoguel: Decolonizing Postcolonial Studies and the Paradigms of
Political-Economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0bcqBdg360
Walter Mignolo: <http://people.duke.edu/%7Ewmignolo/> (professor at Duke)
see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skoL6ngD7Gs
"The Concept of De Coloniality" by Prof Walter Mignolo Filmed & edited by
Wandile Kasibe
and Dear Gunnar, some remarks on your message (to Ken) mea culpa (to us
all) have you realized that Post-colonial theory, is not the same that
Decolonial theory?
http://culturalpolitics.net/cultural_theory/postcolonial
Here in Latin America, many of us talk about *decoloniality
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoloniality> *not of postcoloniality
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcolonialism>.
For me every particular knowledge is instituted against some particular
form of ignorance, but there is no general knowledge covering all forms of
ignorance, nor a total ignorance. Perhaps there are people who know
different things from those that we know.
I am sure, horror! even today, right now, for many people in many parts of
the world, design itself is nothing but a buzzword, or just the same
chicken soup.
Ignoti nulla cupido
<http://mymemory.translated.net/en/Latin/English/ignoti-nulla-cupido>, my
father used to say...
My decolonisign greetings, to you all!
Best,
Alfredo Gutiérrez
PhD Candidate Design and creation
University of Caldas Manizales Colombiahttp://www.doctoradoendiseno.com/
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 4:21 PM, María de Mater O'Neill <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> Saludos
>
> Grateful for the the discussion.
>
> “The more serious lacking of the colonized is to be outside of history and
> outside of the city." (Memmi, 1966)
>
> Professor Eduardo Corte-Real, saludos cordiales, the buzz word
> decolonization is not so in my context, since I live in a colonial
> territory.For me is the everyday painful verb.
>
> Its been my experience that postcolonial methods and theories have been
> playing a large role in design practice and its education, as well as in
> design research.
>
> The methods employed in data collection and analysis for design research,
> as well as the theories that inform them, had to build a decolonized
> epistemological and ontological foundation within my colonized context.
>
> Who owns the research? Who owns the design knowledge? Who chooses the
> methods and tools for inquiry? Who chooses the language to spreading the
> new knowledge? Smith (1999) identifies these questions as the act of
> ‘colonizing knowledge’ and ‘colonizing the disciplines.
>
> It is a complex problem, a moving train with no driver, and yes, still in
> the contemporary design practice, globally, there is a presence of the
> monolithic text that affect both research, education and the practice
> itself.
>
> Profesor Fernando Alberto Álvarez Romero, saludos cordiales, parafraseando
> a Memmi y a Fanon, la maquina es puntual, la situación colonial crea al
> colonizado y el colonizador. Pero hay una diferencia muy grande,
> alineándome con usted, entre un dato histórico a una experiencia de
> vivencia.
>
> Maria de Mater O'Neill
> San Juan, Puerto Rico
>
> Ref
> Fanon, F. The Wretched of the Earth, Grove Press: New York, 1963.
> Memmi, A., Retrato del colonizado, Buenos Aires, 1966,p.102.
> Smith, L. (1999). Decolonising methodologies: Research and indigenous
> people. London: Zed Books.
>
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