Originality and Coloniality in Mexican Lifeworlds: a Transdisciplinary Study into Mexico’s Colonial Past and Present

Abstract

Decolonization is a pressing issue until today. The article approaching it from a point of view of coloniality and originality, cultural processes in which original native and colonial habits and interpretations of reality are internalized and maintained alive in daily life. This is approached from a perspective of phenomenology and the Latin-American Philosophy of Liberation. It observes that coloniality, and originality, is omnipresent in contemporary Mexico, though it is often made absent, and wrongfully made irrelevant. The conclusions are based on the author’s own lived experience of over 18 years. Subsequent articles follow, revealing historical analyses and proposals for liberation.