Vol. 6 No. 12 (2023): Beyond coloniality. Discussion of some key concepts

We are pleased to reach the 12th issue of Encartes magazine, which has become a space for discussion. The main Coloquios dossier revolved around a central essay by David Lehmann in which he criticizes and questions the decolonial discourses and positions taken by Latin American social scientists. After reading his book: After the Decolonial: Ethnicity, Gender and Social Justice in Latin America (2022), recently published in English, we decided to invite him to participate with an essay in Spanish including his main arguments on the subject, which would be open to dialogue and constructive criticism by Latin American researchers.

In this Colloquium dossier, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, Regina Martínez Casas, Eduardo Zárate, Edgar Esquit and Santiago Bastos participate with essays that show the diversity of appropriations and uses of decolonial epistemologies to address and reverse social inequalities.

The five authors take seriously the reading of the other and the challenge to critical debate, but also offer contextualized and situated perspectives to assess the contributions and limitations of the decolonizing exercise of academic thought and attend to the appropriations of actors and social movements in Latin America. We invite you to read these essays which -as Regina Martínez Casas points out in her article- promote reflection.