Potencial político de lo festivo : Aprendiendo de la descolonización

Abstract

In the pages of this book, a journey is made through what we can call the decolonial turn in the investigation of the festive, which ranges from a critical perspective to the construction of a decolonial perspective and methodologies. This is how in the thought of the festive broader relational categories appear, such as exteriority, decolonizing horizon, situated thought, among others, which show the transition from the subject/object epistemology and the so-called "paradigm of consciousness" towards a decolonial, which ignites culture not as something given, but as an unfinished, progressive and gerund ideological battlefield, from which an intercultural horizon can be projected. For this decolonizing purpose, it is necessary to know the constitution and camouflage of colonizing subjectivity such as being a conqueror, being a colonizer, being white, as well as the use of a series of devices, such as the pedagogy of alienation, demonization, folklorization and patrimonialization, which are nothing more than forms of the coloniality of the festival and the festive. The author is not satisfied with the analytical unmasking of the devices of festive coloniality; on the contrary, it gives clues for the construction of decolonizing devices, that is, the pedagogical, epistemic and methodological tools for the ethical-political interruption of coloniality.