La movilización indígena y la descolonización en América Latina: algunas ideas desde los márgenes

Abstract

Based on several of the ideas contained in David Lehman's text, in this paper I propose a different way of understanding the relationship between the indigenous mobilization of the last decades in Latin America, and decolonial studies and other forms of what I call "colonial reason". I argue that this paradigm is broader than "decolonial", and that apart from very interesting contributions, part of its limitations come from its own totalizing intention. But the central argument is around indigenous mobilization, which I consider to be changing and in a process of complexification, in which relations with the ideas of decolonization are evident, but are not the only ones that inform their political action. By taking these two elements into account, the relationship between mobilization, decolonization and democracy is understood in another way and with other consequences.