Son[i]a #399
Ramón Grosfoguel
"El libro de los juegos", 13th Century. Source: Wikipedia.
While strolling through the streets of Granada and studying its history, Puerto Rican sociologist and activist Ramón Grosfoguel came across the erased vitality of the Islamic civilisation of Al-Andalus: mosques turned into churches, burnt libraries, slavery, and various signs of a genocide-epistemicide. According to his reading, it was a rehearsal for what was later applied to the native peoples of the Americas, and also in the mass kidnapping of Africans into slavery and in the burning of witches: wise women native to their land.
In this podcast, Ramón Grosfoguel guides us through centuries of obscurantism in Europe: from Christopher Columbus’s meeting with Queen Isabella in Granada on 11 January 1492 to the debate between Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepulveda that laid the groundwork for the biological and culturalist racism that persists to this day. In doing so, he dismantles the Doctrine of Discovery and the universalist and ahistorical assumptions of Eurocentrism and modernity that still abound in academia.
Conversation: Javiera Cádiz and Anna Ramos. Script and sound production: André Chêdas. Voice over: Clàudia Faus. Sounds: RWM sound library.
Image: "El libro de los juegos" ( "Book of games"), 13th Century. Source: Wikipedia.
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