Journal article

Indians: The Revenge?

The General Context in Latin America: Answering Questions from Yann Moulier Boutang

Pages 97 to 102

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  • Quijano, A.
(2008). Indians: The Revenge? The General Context in Latin America: Answering Questions From Yann Moulier Boutang. Multitudes, No 35(4), 97-102. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.035.0097.

  • Quijano, Aníbal.
« Indians: The Revenge? : The General Context in Latin America: Answering Questions from Yann Moulier Boutang ». Multitudes, 2008/4 No 35, 2008. p.97-102. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2008-4-page-97?lang=en.

  • QUIJANO, Aníbal,
2008. Indians: The Revenge? The General Context in Latin America: Answering Questions from Yann Moulier Boutang. Multitudes, 2008/4 No 35, p.97-102. DOI : 10.3917/mult.035.0097. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2008-4-page-97?lang=en.

https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.035.0097


English

The processes which are currently unfolding in Latin America are a specific expression of the processes or tendencies which are occuring across the entire “globalised world.” This world is a new configuration in sociological terms, produced by the tendencies which push for a change of “boss” - of colonial/modern/ eurocentric power since the mid 1970s, even if some of these tendencies had been in operation at least a decade beforehand. In short, we are plunged into a crisis of transition from the global colonialism from which today we cannot see an exit, but which moves towards a new configuration of global power or towards a global revolution.

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