San Diego State University, USA.
Health (London). 2022 Jan;26(1):120-135. doi: 10.1177/13634593211038517. Epub 2021 Aug 18.
From the Latin American modernity/coloniality project, we address the inhospitality of the modern/colonial and globally designed world-system in relation to suicidality. In our vernacular Spanglish, guided by epistemological disobedience, and responding to epistemicide, we interpellate ourselves to unmask the hidden colonial structures of power of modernity's global design on suicide knowledge. Our intent is to argue, specifically from the perspective of coloniality and our racialized, gendered, and monetized bodies, that suicide is rather an extension of modernity's colonial genocide. From the decolonial geo and body-politics of knowledge, our discussion on modernity's Eurocentric rhetoric on suicide departs from the materialization of suicidality in our flesh. We story experiences of our bodies with life and pleas of death, within the context of our immigrant backgrounds, and as family therapists in the United States (U.S.). We adopt autopsy as an analogy from where to advance such analysis to contest Eurocentric configurations of suicide from within, but against modernity. We emphasize the hidden racism and capitalism of suicide embedded within the persuasive Eurocentric promises of the Anglo scientific method and the U.S. American Dream. We address the concepts of epistemicide, coloniality of knowledge and of being. It is our hope to contribute to further advance decolonizing possibilities to reinscribe options that would border with the current Western knowledge on suicide. This may require other configurations of the body, knowledge, hence ways of being, doing, thinking, sensing, feeling, imagining, and dreaming to coexist among pluriversal hospitable worlds of life and death.
从拉美现代性/殖民性项目出发，我们探讨了现代/殖民和全球化设计的世界体系对自杀问题的不友好。在我们的白话斯潘格尔语中，我们在认识论上不服从，并对认知屠杀做出回应，将自己召唤出来，揭露现代性全球设计对自杀知识的隐藏的殖民权力结构。我们的目的是从殖民性以及我们被种族化、性别化和货币化的身体的角度来论证，自杀实际上是现代性殖民灭绝的一种延伸。从知识的去殖民地理和身体政治的角度出发，我们对现代性关于自杀的欧洲中心主义言论的讨论，源于我们身体的自杀现实。我们讲述了我们在移民背景下的生活和死亡经历，以及作为美国家庭治疗师的经历。我们采用解剖学作为类比，从内部对自杀进行分析，以挑战欧洲中心主义的自杀观念，但反对现代性。我们强调自杀中隐含的种族主义和资本主义，这些都是在英裔科学方法和美国梦的欧洲中心主义承诺中所隐藏的。我们探讨了认知屠杀、知识殖民性和存在殖民性的概念。我们希望为进一步推进去殖民化的可能性做出贡献，重新书写可能与当前西方自杀知识并存的选择。这可能需要身体、知识以及存在、行动、思考、感知、感觉、想象和梦想的其他配置，以在生与死的多元世界中共存。
