Tanato-política, esclavitud, capitalismo colonial y racismo epistémico en la invasión genocida de América

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ID3065762
AuthorsJuan Carlos Sánchez-Antonio (0000-0002-0532-3293, Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca, corresponding author)
Year2020
Issue35
Pages157-180
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTabula rasa (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1794-2489 • E-ISSN: 2011-2742
PublisherColegio Mayor de Cundinamarca (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.25058/20112742.n35.07
OpenAlexW3081858973
LanguageES
Citations received5
References cited6

This article deals with the relation between thanatopolitics, capitalism, and epistemic racism in the ‘colonial world of death’ that enslaved, exploited, and murdered millions of Black and Indigenous women and men as a preponderant condition for the original accumulation of capital in the 15th century in the Americas. We argue that thanatopolitics is a device producing death that made possible not only establishing slavery as a form of unpaid work, but also as a condition of possibility for the original accumulation by an emerging capitalism, as well as fostering a racist necro-epistemology forged against the light of the colonial experience to cover up and guarantee the continuity of capital. At the end, we argue in favor of the need to overcome thanatopolitical capitalism and its necroepistemology by drawing from an inter-epistemic construction of a new environmentallyfriendly equivalent production system and a new environmental rationale favoring life

Art · Colonialism · Humanities · Political science · Sociology · Cultural and Social Dynamics · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · Latin American Cultural Politics · Law

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