War and death in the existence of the racialized subject: An approach through the concept of coloniality in the film the paths of silence (zurita, 1987)

Abstract

The notion of "just war", which was used to justify colonization and genocide in the Americas, represents one of the central axes of the concept of coloniality, which operates at all levels of existence: in the realm of power, in epistemology and in ontology. That is why this pattern of power, which is based on the idea of race, survived the centuries and is now present in different forms in the territories that were colonized, although colonialism, as an administrative structure, political and military, it disappeared as such once those territories gained independence.