Lecturas poscoloniales y decoloniales de la analítica foucaultiana para el análisis en contextos de herencia colonial

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show the contribution of postcolonial and decolonial approaches to the interpretation of Foucauldian discursivity, in terms of its use as a conceptual toolbox for the study of political events in regions where colonial domination structures still survive. Both of these approaches argue that Foucault´s thought leaves Eurocentrism intact simply because it doesn’t consider the “colonial difference” as constitutive of modernity, biopower and governmentality. Nevertheless, post- and de-colonial perspectives consider that his theoretical framework has played a positive role in studies carried out from the European periphery.