Date/Time: Tuesday 30th January 2018, 4:00-5:00pm

Venue: Research Beehive 2.22, Old Library Building

It is a pleasure to announce Dr. Carlos del Valle Rojas’ talk ‘The narratives of Latin-American Civilizing Project: Moral Confidence, Neoliberal Reasoning and Criminal Subjectivity.’ Carlos will be at Newcastle 28th Jan until 1st February as research visitor with the CRIC project. Please note, this seminar will be in Spanish.

Carlos will also be presenting his new co-edited book (with Francisco Sierra and Víctor Silva) Crisis, comunicación y crítica política, Quito: CIESPAL, 2017. This is an important contribution with a strong presence of other CRIC researchers.

Abstract

The distinction between civilization and barbarism, does not only constitute an oppositional discourse for the justification of interventional processes and occupation of territories inhabited by indigenous people, but it also creates an ongoing conflict. As a consequence, what we have systematically observed since the second half of the 19th century is a historical and institutional process of civilizing project, which is based on producing images of the indigenous population as the intimate enemy. This is accomplished mainly through the cultural industry. Also, there are various death and dispossession policies being applied, that are being justified under the moral, criminal and neoliberal discourses.