Coloniality: Who makes the other?
The invention of the America as the first milestone of the colonial project and
of the Eurocentric construction of the globalized world in the image and
likeness of Europe and the US. The conquest, the invention of the America as a
necessary condition for the European and western imperial expansion at
epistemological level (as a model of imposition of values based on the logic of
coloniality) but also economic.While the term colonialism indicates and designates
precise historical periods and areas of imperial domination (Spanish,
Portuguese, English, etc.) coloniality is the "dark side" of
modernity and European imperial expansion...