About author
Romina Laroussi, Romina Anahi-Sckmunck
Romina Laroussi, doctor of sociological Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. Research fellow at the national Council for scientific and technical research of Argentina. Permanent place of work: Department of feminism, gender studies and sexuality, faculty of philosophy and Humanities, national University of Cordoba (NUC). Member of the project “the Uncertain status of female slavery” at the faculty of law of the University of Granada (Spain) and the project “Law and control” at the Center for social and legal research (NUC). The winner of the doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships in Argentina and Europe. Took part in full-time research work in Spain and Costa Rica. At present, the sphere of scientific interests is connected with legal thinking from the point of view of feminism. Email:
rclerussi77@gmail.com
Romina Anahi-Sckmunck, lawyer,master of interdisciplinary gender studies (University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain). Visiting researcher of the research project C109 “Gender colonialism and indigenous people of Mapuche” of the Faculty of pedagogical Sciences of the national University of Komaue. Member of the Department of gender studies, sexuality and human rights, Faculty of law and social Sciences, University of Comahue, Rio Negro, Argentina. Email:
sckmunck.romina@gmail.com
Abstract. In this article, we introduce some reflections about what we mean by coloniality of law. In the first part, we present this category from the hypothesis of the colonial legacies as a rhetorical concept, a term we deem useful in critical law work. Then, we analyze an experience in the Province of Neuquén (Argentina), referring to a General Instruction issued by the Public Prosecutor not to act in certain cases involving members of the indigenous people Mapuce. This experience, in our view, constitutes a unique legal action that opens a possibility of decolonization of the State and jurisdiction back to the Mapuce people.
Keywords: Law, Coloniality, Latin America, Mapuce people.
