Abya Yala, or Latin America, as the region is called following the legacy of the colonial conquest, has a long history of violence and struggles for peace and emancipation. The particularities of this history can be traced back to the process of colonialization, genocide, slavery, and continuous trajectories of violence.
For this video, the network Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict invited a group of scholars to discuss the colonial legacies and continuities and their connection to dynamics of peace and violence in the region.
The video features contributions by Manuela Boatcă on colonization and coloniality in Latin America, Betty Ruth Lozano on race, violence, and peace, Diana Ojeda on land as a fundamental condition for the protection and defense of life, Delmy Tania Cruz Hernández on gender, territory, and resistance, and Karina Bidaseca on trajectories of postcolonial and decolonial perspectives in the region. It is available on YouTube.