Humanities and postcolonial critique (Latin American territories)

Abstract

This brief essay presents some questions about the Humanities in the Latin American context in recent times. In particular, the following question is explored: what geographies, spatialities, and epistemic and political  positionalities have operated in the critical field of postcolonial critique and the decolonial turn? The main objetive is to bring these questions about the Humanities to a reflection from the perspective of postcolonial theories, a term that I use broadly to comprehend at least two critical-theoretical genealogies: postcolonial theory and the decolonial turn, and then a third position denominated Latin American Postcolonial Critique. The axis of differentiation among them is expressed as that which implicates geographies, spatialities and territories, the epistemic and political dimensions they exude, and the repercusions these terms may inflect upon situated critical interventions on the Humanities and their uncertain future. The essay is a general map of the problem, the intention is to open the deabte and to distinguish certain levels that are implicit in the idea of situated thinking and critical enunciation.