Presentation of the volume "Il pensiero Decoloniale" by Salvo Torre. The author will discuss with Salvo Torre, professor at the University of Catania
Gennaro Avallone, professor at Unisa
Angela Mona, Campania Committee of Un Ponte Per
Souzan Fatayer, professor at the University L'Orientale of Naples, representative of the Campania Palestinian Community
Father Rosario Giannattasio, Xaverian missionary and representative of the Salerno Network Dreaming of Peace,
Since the mid-twentieth century, with growing force, criticisms and political proposals have been expressed that invite us to radically rethink the history of the last few centuries and the hierarchies on which the systems of domination were founded. It is a set of theories that has burst into the field of social sciences and political theory, claiming ways of interpreting the world, has animated political and social movements, has shown how the brutal violence of the colonial experience has been fundamental to the construction of capitalist modernity. The term decolonial thought can now be used to indicate this set of ideas and theories that were born in different areas and that are also contributing to redefining the great planetary crisis of recent decades. It is a thought that constantly tends to redefine itself, seeks innovative spaces and continually reinterprets itself, which is why it is easier to define it as a process, not as a classic field of study or a research current. Decolonial thought suggests that we imagine ourselves beyond our historical limits, to place ourselves in a time and social space different from the current ones, to build a world freed from forms of oppression.
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