Bandungian Futurities / Futuridades Bandungianas: A Future-Oriented Practice for South-to-South Solidarities

Bandung principles are still in force and can inspire policies and strategies of the Global South in the twenty-first century. This chapter argues for the continued relevance of the Bandung Conference, which defined racism as one of the most perverse legacies of colonialism, and centers how some experiences in Rio de Janeiro can be interpreted as a way to extend and animate the relevance of Bandung through Global South solidarity mobilization. Using Bandungian logic to imagine futures is not some kind of postpandemic enlightenment, since the metaphor would represent a rescue of Eurocentrisms and the divorce between rationality and spirituality, as well as a pseudo-science of white supremacy. The era being born must in fact be novel. Brazil has experienced the erosion of its institutions, economy, environment, public health, and democracy. In the struggle to forge new futures, after the pandemic and authoritarianism, Rio could function as a laboratory.