Fabian Rojas Pineda
fdrojasp@gmail.com Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Abstract:
This article aims to reassess the issue of animalization as a form of dehumanization. To do this, we first analyze Marxist alienation and reification theories and the colonial theory of animalization, phenomena that were criticized and denounced by decolonial authors, such as Frantz Fanon and Achile Mbembe. The animal features of colonized bodies are an affront to postcolonial humanism, with its aims to restore humanity in those wretched bodies. However, in general, humanism has appeared to be stuck in a crisis from which it is unlikely to recover. With this reflection, we rely upon the posthuman turn to rethink the human/non human link. More specifically, we intend to reassess the transformative nature of the bodies enduring animalization by means of capitalist, colonial, and patriarchal power and violence.
Keywords: dehumanization, animalization, colonialism, humanism, posthumanism, renaturalization.
