Decolonising Time by Ramón Grosfoguel

Within the context of the cycle Colonial Memory II. Tune in to the Whispers the museum is presenting a lecture by the Puerto Rican sociologist Ramón Grosfoguel. Entitled Decolonising Time, it will address the Eurocentric construction of time and its relationship to racial hierarchies around the world. The critique of modern Western civilisation is central to this discussion. 

Ramón Grosfoguel is professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and has directed numerous research projects on racism and the critique of modernity/coloniality from various academic perspectives. He is also a political activist who has supported several political movements in the Global South. His thinking is considered one of the cornerstones of the decolonial approach. 

Grosfoguel has written a vast body of work on racism in different areas of the world-system, on international migration, the decolonisation of knowledge and power, the decolonisation of the world-system's political economy, anti-imperialism, and geopolitics. He coined the concepts of "colonial/racial subjects of empire" and of the "modern/colonial Christian-centric/Western-centric capitalist/patriarchal world-system". In 2022 he published the book De la sociología de la descolonización al nuevo antiimperialismo decolonial (From the sociology of decolonisation to the new decolonial anti-imperialism) with the publisher Akal.