Abstract

FRAGA, Eugenia. Walter Mignolo. The community between language and territory. Rev. colomb. soc. [online]. 2015, vol.38, n.2, pp.167-182. ISSN 0120-159X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcs.v38n2.54887.

The current project has as its objective the tracing of the borders of the concept of community in the work of a Latin American author and "Latin Americanist" who in recent years has come to be more relevant in social sciences: Walter Mignolo. As he is recognized based on his writings in the framework of the Modernity/Coloniality Project and the so-called "de-colonial" studies, his early preparation was associated with semiotics and literary theory, and it was in this same direction that his first productions were oriented. The article focuses on this early period of the author's works-that range from the 1980s to the end of the century-making efforts to trace the polysemy of the concept of community, which results in being one of the key ideas of his entire thought process. The different meanings that community assumes in this first part of Mignolo's work ranges, according to our hypothesis, between the language problem and the matter of territory or, more specifically, between literacy and territoriality. To trace these problematic situations, a special section is created to see how each one of them is treated separately by the author in order to later delve into its analysis together in a third section. Then later some notes are revealed that have to do with the way the aforementioned is framed in a singular, epistemological reflection, given that the ways (established by the author) to understand the literacy and territoriality imply, inevitably, a singular way of conceiving the epistemology of social sciences; in other words, our own relationship with knowledge that we maintain with the world. Such epistemology would be very much in tune with what has been already seen, a group but also dialogical and in place. Finally, a series of conceptual conclusions are outlined which emerges from the triple cross of the ideas of community, language and territory, and from these the concept of locus of enunciation emerges, which, according to our hypothesis, will tie in a spatial dimension, a discursive and the problem of power.

Keywords : community; epistemology; locus de enunciation; Walter Mignolo; territory.

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