Entre a longa tradição intelectual e os novos vocabulários teórico-práticos, o lugar da Opção decolonial

Abstract

Latin American intellectuals from different institutions, mostly from Hispanic-American countries, gathered at the end of the 1990s to form the Modernity/Coloniality group. Since the previous decades, their work had as a common point the concern to update the Latin American critical tradition, in the light of postcolonial studies. The publication "La colonialidad del saber: eurocentrismo y ciencias sociales", organized by Edgard Lander in 2000, by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), presented the group’s ideas to the academic debate. The Portuguese version of this collection was made available by the CLACSO virtual library in 2005. This perhaps explains a certain mismatch in the use of “decolonial” terminology in the Brazilian academic environment, which has been observed more clearly in recent years.