The Canary Islands, an Imperial Frontier

Decolonial Thought in South-South Relations in Northwest Africa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3948773
AutoresRoberto Gil Hernández (0000-0003-4905-6550, Universidad de La Laguna, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen30
Número3
Páginas1226-1255
Fecha de publicación2025-05-27
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2024.2418581
OpenAlexW4404227801
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas42

The Canary Islands have been denied their Africanness throughout history. This has served to legitimise the problematic role of the archipelago as West’s imperial frontier in Northwest Africa. Through agenealogy of the available literature on relations between the African continent and the Islands, the effects of this position are critically evaluated. To this purpose, this article presents a sociological analysis of the dialectic of North-South domination and its effects on the ambivalent representations that insist on the archipelago being referred to, in some cases, as the South of the North, and, in others, as the North of the South. From the point of view of decolonial thought, it is affirmed that the Canary Islands, despite its links with the Kingdom of Spain and European Union, can also recognise itself in the African political, cultural, and epistemic plurality and interact with it in the framework of South-South relations

Ambivalence · Archaeology · Archipelago · Dialectic · Epistemology · Ethnology · Frontier · Geography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Law