Dismantling the Coloniality of Seeing

WEBINAR SERIES 2023 | The Indigenous Gaze: decolonising visual cultures

↘ See full programme

DISMANTLING THE COLONIALITY OF SEEING

Contemporary Indigeneities and Counter-Imaginaries for the Global Age

Dr. Nasheli Jiménez del Val

In this session I will propose a theoretical decolonial reading of current global networks of indigeneity and their production of counter-imaginaries as strategic interventions in the dismantling of the coloniality of seeing. Following Joaquín Barriendos’ work on the coloniality of seeing (la colonialidad del ver, 2011), I will first broadly consider how the coloniality of seeing is constructed and perpetuated in a contemporary global setting. Centrally, I will analyse how the coloniality of seeing is contested, disarticulated, and disassembled by the rich counter-imaginaries produced by South-South networks of Indigenous image-making. Drawing from a corpus of images produced in Abya Yala, I will discuss how these counter-imaginaries have contributed to shape what Barriendos has termed a new decolonial inter-epistemic…