Colonial Powers, Violence and Inter-ethnic Territories

Abstract

The inter-ethnic territories of Abya-Yala are marked by enormous asymmetries and historical, ethnic and social inequalities. From Alaska to Patagonia, the first nations and / or native peoples cannot be understood without that set of structural relationships based on the colonial power of nation states based on war and postwar states, hardly peace. In all these diverse stories and memories, it is necessary to collect multiple violence that transcends the repressive actions of the State, they continue to be part of the multiple socio-political scenarios and the worlds of life of the inhabitants of inter-ethnic territories. In this text we will advocate for an intercultural understanding of the decolonial critique of power based on a categorical analysis of what violence contributes as a specific chapter of colonial power that occupies political thought. The aim is thus to rethink a political philosophy that articulates dialogue and conflict in the field of inter-ethnic relations. The category of colonial power and its transformations requires investigating the phenomenon of domination and legitimation, since state violence by claiming the only legitimate one in that it seeks to contain the violence of social and ethnic mobilization to put itself at the service of the state of law, order and property, does not consolidate an effective intercultural coexistence but rather increases the spiral of historical violence, annulling the possibilities of an intercultural politics.