Notes on modernity, decolonialism and cultural agency in Latin America

Authors

  • Salvador Leetoy Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.16921/chasqui.v0i131.2691

Keywords:

modernity, cultural agency, eurocentrism, emancipatory politics

Abstract

This article elaborates on how modernity is appropriated in Latin America in terms of its own decolonial disposition. Accordingly, it is reviewed to what extent cultural agency strategies are constitutive of a transgressive construction of a modernity from below. It is stated that the Latin American condition cannot be considered just as a mere ideological pastiche of discourses of premodernity, modernity and postmodernity, since such a view is buttressed on Eurocentric reductionisms. Hence, it is established that a contextual perspective of historical, political and social conditions is needed in order to understand our particular subaltern condition.

Author Biography

  • Salvador Leetoy, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara
    Doctor en Estudios Culturales por la Universidad de Alberta, Canadá (2008), y maestro en Comunicación por el Tecnológico de Monterrey (1998). Es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores desde 2009 (SNI, Nivel 1).

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Published

31-08-2016

Issue

No. 131 (2016): Diálogo de saberes: giro decolonial y comunicología latinoamericana

Section

Monográfico

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