The coloniality of love
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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i21.58668Abstract
The colonization processes of Abya Yala were possible thanks to the nuclearization of the original forms of collective and community organization. The project of civilization and debarbarization of the Indians meant incorporating them into the institution of the nuclear family, monogamous, heterosexual, with Christian morality and centered on the couple, useful for the appropriation of the territory and local free labor and which made it possible to impose the institution of colonial state first and republican later. Although affectivity appears as a liberating aspiration in the contexts of structural violence, it is used calculatedly as an instrument of domination to maintain women's obedience, deterritorialize them from their body, sexuality, work and reproductive function. Decolonizing love implies destructuring the romantic love that has served for colonial continuity, separating love, sexuality and the couple, apparently indissoluble.
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