Abstract

LAO-MONTES, Agustín. Crafting Decolonial Cultural Politics. Interculturality as a Resource for Citizenship and Radical Democracy. Prospectiva [online]. 2022, n.34, pp.25-59.  Epub July 01, 2022. ISSN 0122-1213.  https://doi.org/10.25100/prts.v0i34.12219.

The promotion of cultural politics as resources of citizenship and radical democracy requires an analytical work to problematize the very concept of culture, its genealogy, its uses and abuses. This article traces the path from the “cultural turn” through Cultural Studies to the "decolonial turn" that serves as a historical, theoretical, and political basis to elaborate interculturality as an epistemic and ethical-political principle of decolonization, understood as a process of construction of a radically just and democratic socio-economic, political, and cultural order. The article performs a kind of genealogy of the field of cultural policies in Latin America from the emergence of nation-states in the 19th century, focusing on the emergence of intercultural policies at the end of the 20th century, catalyzed by the collective actions of social movements, especially Afro-descendants and Indigenous. It examines different discourses and politics of interculturality that correspond to distinct racial projects, conceptions of citizenship, and paradigms of democracy. The article closes by examining intercultural politics and policies at local and regional scales, focusing on Colombia from the intersectional position and perspective of decolonial feminism.

Keywords : Interculturality; Decolonial; Racial Project; Radical Democracy; Critical Regionalism.

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