Manuela Boatcă

01:35 Coloniality: see Tag ‘Coloniality’ 

03:03 Transatlantic trade in enslaved people: see Project Slave Voyages

05:25 France sells Louisiana (a much larger territory than today’s Louisiana) to the US in 1803 (source). 

Betty Ruth Lozano

07:50 Abya Yala (land of fertile blood) originates from the Kuna people indigenous to Panama and Colombia and refers to the Americas (source).

07:58 Aníbal Quijano: Peruvian sociologist. He coined the notion of Coloniality of Power 

08:39 Modernity: coloniality and modernity as two sides of the same coin: See for example Walter Mignolo (Argentinian Semiotician).

08:54  Othering/Other: for a reflection on the construction of the Other, see for example Stuart Hall on the West/Rest-Dichotomy, or Edward Said on Orientalism.

10:30 Police violence in Brazil; See entry on Systems of Conflictivity by Andréa Gill 

Diana Ojeda

14:57 Vivir sabroso: An Afro-Colombian community philosophy.

• Further readings (ES): Quinceno Toro, N. (2016). Vivir Sabroso. Vivir Sabroso. Luchas y movimientos afroatrateños, en Bojayá, Chocó, Colombia; Silva-Liévano, E. (2023). Vivir sabroso. Zegusqua, (2), 6-11; (EN) https://en.serlo.org/community/261850/vivir-sabroso-a-community-philosophy-for-the-future 

15:11 Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: Bolivian sociologist and activist. 

• Further reading: Cusicanqui, S. R. (2020). Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: On decolonising practices and discourses. Cambridge: Polity.

17:43 Desalambrar: a Spanish word meaning ‘to unfence’, or ‘to tear down the fences’. It is mostly used in the context of struggles for land ownership and the idea of social movements and communities taking back the land.   

• Further reading: Matallana-Peláez SE. Desalambrando: A Nasa Standpoint for Liberation. Hypatia. 2020;35(1):75-96. doi:10.1017/hyp.2019.14

18:50 Community Feminisms:

• Aura Cumes Simón: is a Maya kaqchiquel researcher, teacher, and activist from Guatemala.
• Gladys Tzul Tzul: is a Maya K’iche’ researcher and essayist from Guatemala.
• Lorena Cabnal: is a Mayan Q’eqchi’-xinka healer and feminist.

19:10 Beatriz do Nascimento: Afro-Brazilian academic and activist.

• Further reading on ‘Geografías Quilombolas’ – Farfán-Santos, E. B. (2016). Black Bodies, Black Rights: The Politics of Quilombolismo in Contemporary Brazil. University of Texas Press. 

20:17 Thinkers of peace

• Marielle Franco: Brazilian human rights defender and politician. 
• Berta Cáceres: Indigenous leader and activist from Honduras. 
• Francia Márquez: activist and the current vice president of Colombia (2025).
• Máxima Acuña: Peruvian farmer and activist.
• Juana Carfunao 

20:54  Colombian peace movements

• La Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres 
• Mujeres Tejedores De Vida

Delmy Tania Cruz Hernández

24:11 Body-land-territory.

• Further reading: Cabnal, L. (2017). Tzk’at, Red de Sanadoras Ancestrales del Feminismo Comunitario desde Iximulew-Guatemala. Ecología Política, 54, 98–102. 

Karina Bidaseca

28:00 Améfrica Ladina, concept coined by Lélia Gonzalez (Brazilian anthropologist and feminist activist)

29:00 Crisis of the Orthodox Consensus – Anthony Giddens (British sociologist). 

29:28 Subaltern Studies Group 

29:40 Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (Bolivian sociologist and activist) and Rossana Barragán (Bolivian historian)

•  The Book (EN):  Rivera Cusicanqui, S. & R. Barragán (Eds.) (1997): Debates post coloniales: Una introducción a los estudios de subalternidad.

29:57 A Subaltern Studies Reader edited by Ranajit Guha (Indian historian).

30:22 The Subaltern: originally coined by Antonio Gramsci. The concept has been used in various contexts to refer to the most oppressed people in various societies.

30:44 The postcolonial movement and its founding scholars:

• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Indian Professor literary theorist)
• Homi Bhabha (Indian-American critical theorist)
• Edward Said (Palestinian-American literary theorist)

31:27 Concepts of “the other” (see 08:54) and “the nation”

31:40 The Manifest of the Subaltern Studies Group

31:51 Aníbal Quijano (see 07:58)

• Inspired by Indigenous studies (indigenismo)– José Carlos Mariátegui (Peruvian marxist philosopher)
• Book: Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America

• Edgardo Lander (Venezuelan sociologist) – The Coloniality of Knowledge

32:17 María Lugones (Argentinian Feminist philosopher) – The Coloniality of Gender

• Group “Modernity/Coloniality”

33:00  Decolonial and Anti-Racist Feminism

• Inspired by Afrofeminism and Intersectional Feminism
• Lélia Gonzalez (Brazilian anthropologist and feminist activist)
• Sueli Carneiro (Afro-Brazilian scholar)
• Further reading: De Souza Lima, Lívia (2023). The Feminist and Decolonial Pedagogy of Lélia Gonzalez and Sueli Carneiro.