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After the Decolonial. Ethnicity, Gender and Social Justice in Latin America. Edition No. 1

  • Book

  • 252 Pages
  • January 2022
  • Region: Latin America
  • John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • ID: 5837673

After the Decolonial examines the sources of Latin American decolonial thought, its reading of precursors like Fanon and Levinas and its historical interpretations. In extended treatments of the anthropology of ethnicity, law and religion and of the region’s modern culture, Lehmann sets out the bases of a more grounded interpretation, drawing inspiration from Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia and Chile, and from a lifelong engagement with issues of development, religion and race.

The decolonial places race at the centre of its interpretation of injustice and, together with the multiple other exclusions dividing Latin American societies, traces it to European colonialism. But it has not fully absorbed the uniquely unsettling nature of Latin American race relations, which perpetuate prejudice and inequality, yet are marked by métissage, pervasive borrowing and mimesis. Moreover, it has not integrated its own disruptive feminist branch, and it has taken little interest in either the interwoven history of indigenous religion and hegemonic Catholicism or the evangelical tsunami which has upended so many assumptions about the region’s culture.

The book concludes that in Latin America, where inequality and violence are more severe than anywhere else, and where COVID-19 has revealed the deplorable state of the institutions charged with ensuring the basic requirements of life, the time has come to instate a universalist concept of social justice, encompassing a comprehensive approach to race, gender, class and human rights.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE: The Latin American Decolonial

CHAPTER TWO: Indigeneity, Gender and Law

CHAPTER THREE: Religion and Culture: Popular, Indigenous and Hegemonic

CHAPTER FOUR: From Popular Culture to the Cultures of the People: Evangelical Christianity as a Challenge to the Decolonial

CONCLUSION: Democratizing Democracy

NOTES

REFERENCES

Authors

David Lehmann Centre of Latin American Studies, Cambridge.