Criticism of the model of capitalist, patriarchal and colonial development. Decolonize the imaginary of the territory

Abstract

The article is based on research and training processes that problematized the territory, diversity, interculturality, and education with the aim to share analysis points on the tension among development as a device of global government, as an instrument of colonialism of beings and knowledge, as a cognitive horizon for social control and for reproducing the accumulation and expropriation regime prevailing at a global level. Such regime used various devices to prevent the advance of progressive forces who oppose extractivism in the region, such as the application of the criminal law of the enemy, no longer as an exception but as a global design. Contrary to this unhealthy regime, progress is being made in ways of life other than the Western capitalism in various parts of the world and especially in our Latin America. These new ways are socio- and bio-centric and are characterized as relational ontologies for the benefit of territories, communities, and peace. Thus, opposing the predation of nature, a material basis for the well-being of a minority, who reproduce social asymmetries and injustices.