The Rights of indigenous peoples as strategies for decolonization. An analysis of its potentialities

Abstract

The objective of this work is to draw attention to the potential of indigenous collective rights as strategies for decolonization. We will divide, for this, the work in several moments. A first moment, in which the interdependencies that have existed between the discourse of development and colonialism in Latin America are clearly collected. Hence, indigenous rights make these two factors the mainstay of their strategy. A second moment, in which we will carry out an analysis of how the "decolonial turn" is interpreted by the Modernity/Coloniality network in Latin America, to emphasize some of the structural limitations of this discourse. In a third, more proactive moment, we will show what are the main contributions of indigenous rights to decolonization processes and with what principles indigenous collective rights are articulated to propose their own decolonization project. Finally, we will conclude with some considerations to understand the contributions of indigenous rights as part of that decolonization project.