Friday, November 26, 2010

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Cusicanqui Rivera: "We live in a republican colonialism" Public Statement

ECUADOR Bolivian sociologist and activist discusses decolonization and gender in the Book Fair. 26.11.2010 / sociologist and activist Bolivian Aymara descent, has been linked to the movement katarista and coca in his country. Comes as the guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair to talk about decolonization in modern society.

What are the general terms of its presentation at the Book Fair?

I have talked about colonialism and gender, can not have decolonization without a diagnosis, because in our countries is normalized, then it is felt, not seen or expressed. There is an invisible even in many progressive people. What is colonization and how it manifests? There is no diagnosis.


What would be the diagnosis and what are the vestiges of colonialism?

One element is the adoption of verb forms, making multi agendas but only in words. People talk while you have maids at home, then obviously they are not willing to decolonization because it would wash dishes, but do not speak the subject and prefer to use nice words. Colonialism has words like masking paper, we live in a republican colonialism. Taking

history, indigenous peoples also had colonial practices as the Incas.



You have this myth because they have waged war with Peru, and need a nationalist myth to explain that the Incas were colonialists and solve their problems. This is a topic of the oligarchies, not history. There has been domination, I can not deny, but in the Bolivian Andes has no need of the colonial Inca, because we had no war with Peru. The Aymara Inca assume different horizon. There have been partnerships with the state and against him. The fact that I resist the domination of whites against Indians did not mean to accept Indian domination over Indians. My role is to denounce all forms of oppression as a committed intellectual. Now many bad consolation of fools. If you shield you from your colonial attitudes, saying they too are colonists, then too bad for you.
Based on these structures more functional and positive, what would a contemporary current model?

There is actually quite clear, for example the crisis of some systems of social organization as savage capitalism, which has destroyed our chances of survival as a species on the planet. And how statist socialist left us a taste of dictatorship. In those poles which alternative is, as a communitarian society. A community self-management space, democracy, plurality and articulation of diversity. That should work out of the living state capitalism of financial bubbles. There emerges the indigenous rationality must be reinvented, not assume it as is, no machismo or indigenous alcoholism, but to rethink in the community.





In Ecuador, the indigenous movement is very strong. There is talk of an interest to bring this community thought of small nations with certain privileges. For example, indigenous justice, somehow applies violence offenders but outside the state. not understand the question. Are you afraid that the country becomes 5 countries little ones do not worry, it's not going to happen. Paranoia is a typical mixed. The mestizo has no identity, except to assume its Indian ancestry and live in anguish. That settles with nationalism, with the flag, the anthem, geography and maps. It is chauvinistic and sometimes ultra-conservative. I do not think that the horizon of the Indians is to fragment the state. What justice is autonomous. In the indigenous justice if someone is accused of stealing money, have to be repaid. It's not about to put him in jail. Search for repentance and reintegration into the community. Opera immediately, and the moral sanction goes hand in hand with social and legal sanction. I wish all the justices work that way.


Hortiga But here it and then you wash in cold water ...
Ah yes. It is the pursuit of repentance. There are also ritual methods for someone who has transgressed any rules. He does sleep in a cemetery and that his guilt cause him so afraid to change behavior. Is it better to have a subject crowded and exposed to violence of all kinds? I prefer the nettle thousand times.

You talk a lot of women in indigenous models. For

is a pending task. Women do not have much value in indigenous models. Gender equity is even utopian, but gender intersects with colonialism. Does not raise the domestic or parental responsibility, because he who does it, another woman. The most difficult tasks lie in domestic work a woman, is a question of gender. But the Creole elite mestizo woman has lost a bargaining chip with the partner. He can throw the clothes at home and not matter, there is an indigenous woman who will pick it up. It's tough. There can be no feminism if that oppression remains from woman to woman.

You talk about the hybridization of cultures not mestizo.

all depends on how they coexist. If I say that is multi-ethnic dance is a lady with false eyelashes and moving your body as bataclana, then no thanks. Each must recognize the Indian mestizo leading in and what should raise a valid interlocutor and coexists with that contradiction. Also we retrieve items from Western culture, for example the notion of person, freedom and equality. It is the world where opposites coexist without melting. Mules are hybrids, they are also sterile. The white man thinks it is not universal. It is the most specific. Servitude in the United States is Latino. That's the strongest lag and the same happens here too. With these patterns we are promoting colonialism.

In the visual arts, there are the indigenous and mestizo. It has given a particularly strong in the world. This is an example of fusion.

fusion but do not talk about juxtaposition. I can tell you music. It is a gray, but in the world if you approach aymara clearly see the white and black. Contrary is the world richer. This juxtaposition of opposites creates a very particular aesthetic vibration of art in countries like ours. It is not uncomfortable with that contradiction. We have not killed, but he has given us a lot of wealth.


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