ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the importance of the geopolitical dimension of knowledge production and the potential pitfalls of not taking the colonial difference to discuss interculturality. It relies on data gathered through interviews with teachers and students from a pan-Andean educational initiative on interculturality, or to be more precise: interculturalidad, run by indigenous movements with a particular focus on what the concept of interculturalidad means to the interviewees, why they use it, and how they see it being accomplished. Granted, a citizenship produced within the framework of interculturalidad is not merely a new model of citizenship for indigenous people; it seems fair to suggest that it is a new model of citizenship per se. Furthermore, in articulating the insufficiency of Western knowledge and continental philosophy, a strong argument can be made that interculturalidad expresses an alternative framework for debates on modernity, development and ways of life.
