A talk on the coloniality of power and knowledge, transmodernity, border knowledge, indigenous socialism and the socialization of power, solidarity economies, and other contemporary practices, theories and radical political alternatives emerging from the Global South. The panelists will discuss autonomous self-activity in Venezuela, Amazonian social forums, poly-culturality, global indigenous movements, the conditions and politics of knowledge production during the early colonization of the Americas and the entrenchment of the Atlantic slave trade, as well as contemporary indigenous responses, such as the establishment of the Indigenous Studies program in Canada, Indigenous universities in Mexico and elsewhere.
Panelists: Roberto D. Hernández (UC Berkeley) Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz (militant historian and author) George Cicarelio Maher (UC Berkeley)