DECOLONIZING DECOLONIALITY:
A VIEW FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD
We hear calls from around the world to decolonize, diversify, and decenter knowledge production and dissemination. But what does this really mean in different contexts, who is participating, and whose interests are served? For the last two years, the GDC has been hosting a series of community-wide conversations about Decolonizing Decoloniality. So far, scholars from Mexico, Indonesia, Taiwan, Mozambique and Angola, and Argentina have shared their experiences and practices.
Upcoming conversation
Decolonizing Decoloniality – A View from Argentina
Date: November 27, 2024
Time: 8:00 AM EST / 10:00 AM Buenos Aires
Location: Online via Zoom (with translation into English)
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Join us for the next conversation in our Decolonizing Decoloniality series, where we explore diverse perspectives on decoloniality and de-centering knowledge production. In this edition, we are excited to present A View from Argentina, featuring Professors Máximo Badaró and Silvina Merenson (EIDAES UNSAM/CONICET).
Our speakers will share insights on de-centering practices and theories from the Argentine context, shedding light on how local experiences inform global debates. Facilitating the discussion will be Patricia Lepratti (IDES-UNGS), Luciana Denardi (UNSAM/CONICET), and Ezequiel Saferstein (UNSAM/CONICET).
The conversation will be held in Spanish, with live Zoom translation available in English.
The event is free and open to the public. The Zoom link will be shared soon—stay tuned for updates! Follow us on Instagram and check your email for future communications. We look forward to welcoming you to this important conversation as we continue to de-centering traditional knowledge.
Participant bios
Silvina Merenson is a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET, Argentina), and Professor of Social Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM, Argentina). She works in the interfaces between History, Anthropology and Political Science. She has conducted fieldwork in Argentina, Uruguay and USA. Her current research, initiated in 2019, is about Class Self-Ascription in the North and South of the Bonaerense Conurban (Argentina). On her more recent publications are a political ethnography about the history of networks and transnational displacements of the Broad Front (Frente Amplio) of Uruguay in Argentina.
Máximo Badaró is a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET, Argentina), and Professor of Social Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional de San Martin (UNSAM, Argentina). He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS-Paris). He has conducted fieldwork at the armed forces in Argentina, the WTO in Geneva, and marketing agencies and commercial intermediaries in China. He is specialized in political anthropology of institutions, elites and China-Latin America relations. He published numerous articles in academic journals and four books: Militares o ciudadanos. La formación de los oficiales del ejército argentino (Prometeo, 2009); Historias del ejército argentino. 1990-2010. Democracia, política y sociedad (Edhasa, 2013); Los encantos del poder. Desafíos de la antropología política (with Marc Abélès, Siglo XXI, 2015); China in Argentina: Ethnographies of a Global Expansión (Palgrave, 2021).
Previous conversations
Mexico – Federico Besserer (Professor of Anthropology, Autonomous Metropolitan University) and Dahil Melgar (Chief Curator, National Museum of Cultures of the World), facilitated by Peggy Levitt (Mildred Lane Kemper Chair of Sociology, Wellesley College) In English.
Indonesia – Sita Hidaya (Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta) and Judith Schlehe (Professor in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Freiburg), facilitated by Sanderien Verstappen (University of Vienna, Austria). In English.
Taiwan – Prof. Hongzen Wang (Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Director of the Austronesian Studies Center, and the Dean of Si Wang College at National Sun Yat-Sen University) facilitated by Ken Chih-Yan Sun, (Associate Professor at Villanova University). In English
Mozambique and Angola – Ines Raimundo (Eduardo Mondiane University in Mozambique), Prof. Higino Lombe (Auxiliary Prof at the University of Culto Cuanavale In Angola), and Prof. Isaías Falau (Assistant Professor at the Superior Institute of Social Sciences and International Relations in Angola), facilitated by Alvaro Lima, Research Director at the Boston Planning and Development Agency. In Portuguese with sub-titles in English.