XCO EVENTS 090413/YAMILA GUTIÉRREZ CALLISAYA/TOWARD THE COMMUNAL(THE CONSTITUTION OF THE BOLIVIAN STATE AND A THE DECOLONIAL RE-CONSTITUTION OF AYLLUS

Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Working Group
UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American Studies invite you to


A WORKSHOP WITH

YAMILA GUTIÉRREZ CALLISAYA

CONSEJO NACIONAL DE AYLLUS Y MARKAS DEL QULLASUYU (CONAMAQ), LA PAZ, BOLIVIA

ON

TOWARD THE COMMUNAL

(THE CONSTITUTION OF THE BOLIVIAN STATE AND A THE DECOLONIAL RE-CONSTITUTION OF THE AYLLUS)


The workshop will be conducted in Spanish and coordinated by Marcelo Fernández-Osco (Department of Romance Studies, co-founder of THOA, Taller Historia Oral Andina)

Monday, April 13, 2009
5,45 pm to 8 pm

Friedl Building 225A (East Campus, right by the bus stop; parking available at the entrance on Buchanan and Trinity)

Light dinner will be served.

Noam Chomsky describes Bolivia as the most democratic country on earth at this point. Yamila Gutierrez will describe the crucial role that the re-constitution of the Ayllus is playing in this process and the role of the Ayllus in redoing political theory and political economy (e.g., the re-conceptualization of “the communal”), working toward de-colonial democratic futures. We are allowing ample time for debate and exchange of ideas.


For more information about CONAMAQ see http://www.conamaq.org.bo/