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Essays from a Present in Crisis
A Ch’ixi World is Possible
Essays from a Present in Crisis
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A New World is Possible (Un Mundo Ch'ixi es posible) is an illuminating manifesto by one of the founders of decolonial theory, Silvia Riveria Cusicanqui. It presents an inventive and urgent cartography of diverse worlds around which a decolonial reality can emerge. Riveria Cusicanqui proposes a bold new model of cultural hybridity driven by the experience of indigenous movements and thought in South America and a crucial intervention into questions of orality and of knowledge in performance, micropolitics and the everyday.
For Cusicanqui, the concept of Ch'ixi, a term taken from geology and stonemasonry to describe the varying texture and colour of rock, is a figure with which to elaborate an argument about the mixing of cultures that come together but retain distinct aspects. The book makes vivid propositions for many contemporary debates around power, race and the decolonial and offers practicable ways to co-exist without sacrificing difference to the globalized capitalist economy and culture.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1:A ch'ixi world is possible: Memory, market and colonialism
Contexts and dialogues
The siege of diversity
Closure on the past to inaugurate the future
On intellectual colonization
Hypotheses and hopes for a muddled present
Is it possible to decolonize and de-mercantalize modernity?
Toward a theoretical sketch of ch'ixi value
Market and ritual in the circuits of the wak'a Potosi
What to do with the market?
Free excerpts on the notion of the ch'ixi
Chapter 2: Magic words: Reflections on natureof the present crisis
Qhipnayra: The dialectical present as a subversion of the past
Images for a metaphorical critique of progress
Missed opportunities
On the stripping power of social mobilizations
Found opportunities
What is interculturality?
Chapter 3: Orality, gaze and memories of the body in the Andes
Lup'iña-Amuyt'aña
Oralities
Performances
Dialogue with the audience
Chapter 4: Andean Micropolitics. Elemental forms of everyday insurgence
Micropolitics and collective memory
Micropolitics and politics
Chapter 5: Jiwasa, the individual-collective
Interview with Francisco Pazzarelli
Bibliography
Glossary
Product details
| Published | 21 Sep 2023 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 176 |
| ISBN | 9781350263895 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 216 x 138 mm |
| Series | Lines |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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