O princípio da autodeterminação dos povos e decolonialidade: uma perspectiva a partir do terceiro mundo

Abstract

This article intends to carry out a study on the development of the right to self-determination of peoples, and its respective concept and extension, from a TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law) perspective, combining it with decolonial theory. Thus, we seek to outline its historical origin and development at the UN level, presenting the main documents that address the issue and how they delimit its content, as well as the way in which disputes of interest between the West and the Third World influenced its process. training, in addition to determining the uses of self-determination in the face of the project of modernity/coloniality in the international political sphere. To this end, an analysis of international documents that address the topic is carried out, as well as a critical examination that brings a third world perspective. From this, it is demonstrated that the principle of self-determination of peoples does not constitute a skillful means of overcoming the project of Western modernity/coloniality, so that only the political articulation of the Third World can provide a path to overcoming such a reality. , making it imperative to privilege narratives and epistemologies that come from the Third World.