The genealogy of the decolonial perspective in Latin America

The article recovers the importance of the decolonial critique of the social sciences to underscore a relatively unknown origins of its categories in Latin American economic thought. The notions that give life to the categories which govern the decolonial drive can be traced to what today is commonly refer as post Second World War development theorists as the «Latin-American structuralist school» in the anglosaxon or european academy, mostly renowned by the names Raúl Prebisch and Celso Furtado, amongst many other intellectuals. I initiated the description of the discursive genealogy following W. Mignolo classic article. Notwithstanding, a strand of the decolonial movement in Latin america stopped short of a full-blown critique of the occident’s perspective, accepting the pertinence of the nineteenth century political economy conception of the labor theory of value

Antinomy · Decoloniality · Empire · Latin Americans · Politics · Latin American Cultural Politics · Politics and Society in Latin America · Sociology and Education in Brazil