The lecture title is “The Dispute for the Hegemony of the Unipolar Imperialist World: between the Davos Fascists and the Traditional Fascists”. It will take place in the Che Guevara Hall.

Ramón Grosfoguel (Puerto Rico, 1956) is a sociologist of the Modernity/Coloniality Group at the University of California at Berkeley.

He defines his way of thinking, as belonging to the decolonial and surpassing postcolonial currents to which he considers himself related.

The sociologist affirms that there is a structural link between modernity and colonialism and that the effects of European colonialism did not cease with the processes of decolonization and national independence of the 19th and 20th centuries, it persists in culture and ways of thinking (epistemology).

Grosfoguel proposes a decolonial turn to carry out an epistemological decolonization that corrects the universalist and historical deformations of Eurocentrism and modernity, which he considers to be in a “terminal crisis”.

This researcher, as described by Casa de las Américas, emphasizes the critique of racism and the dividing line that colonial thought establishes between the human and the non-human.

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