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Derivations of biopolitics in the current arena: the notions of coloniality and decoloniality according to Michel Foucault

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No. 19 (2022): October-March. Dossier: Deconstructions of the biopolitical monster in Latin America (20th and 21st centuries)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2022.68526
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This article proposes to carry out an analysis based on an inverse journey to that of the research works investigating the link between postcolonial studies and Foucault’s thought which has focused on the possible appropriation and the critique that these studies make of the philosopher’s concepts. In contrast to them, this article shows that that matrix of thought offers tools and categories that allow dealing with coloniality and decoloniality, and that these concepts are linked, in the first place, with the strong critique that the philosopher formulates to the ideas of “the human”, truth, history, power, knowledge and language, highlighting the scope and potentialities of these proposals. At the same time, and being consistent with these proposals, we make explicit the notion of coloniality as a phenomenon of power, domination and production of subjectivity of our present time, in which we highlight other figures of “the human” that continue to define the contemporary scene in this same sense. Finally, we propose a series of tentative conclusions about the idea of “the human” in the current scene of postcolonial societies, such as the Latin American ones, as an epilogue to the problems raised.

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colonialidad, decolonialidad, Foucault, dominación, subjetividad
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Raffin, M. (2022). Derivations of biopolitics in the current arena: the notions of coloniality and decoloniality according to Michel Foucault. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (19). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2022.68526
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Meridional. Revista Chilena de Estudios Latinoamericanos
Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
Universidad de Chile
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