Colonialismo y violencia. Bases para una reflexión pos-colonial desde los derechos humanos

Abstract

The article discusses four fundamental mechanisms of Western colonialist diffusionism: the establishment of abusive generalizations that prevent the knowledge of the other’s complexity; the colonialist backlash and the concealment of the origins of colonialist processes; the transformation of geographical space; abstract humanism and its distance in relation to the depredatory practices of colonialism. The author analyzes these mechanisms from the perspective of a radical conception of human rights, and concludes that the capacity to fight for both cultural recognition and the just distribution of resources resides in the essential affirmation of these rights.

Keywords

• human rights
• colonialism
• violence
• postcolonialism