Decolonial theories: origin, categories, and critical intents

Abstract

This paper presents the epistemic and political proposal of the Modernity/ Coloniality group. I display the conformation of the group, its members and principal conceptual and theoretical elaborations. The essay exposes with thoroughness the contribution of collective Modernity/Coloniality, in special, its critic of modernity and the epistemic colonialism which Europe and the named First World has put under the “periphery”