The Guanches , A Spectral Border. The Hauntological Condition of the Indigenous of the Canary Islands and Decolonial Thought

The Indigenous of the Canary Islands have been repeatedly excluded from decolonial genealogies. The survival of certain structures of European domination on the Islands can explain the failure of any epistemic engagement. However, it has been the recurrent absence of these populations in the African and Latin American Indigenist traditions, marked by the ambiguity of their hauntological condition, which defines the role that the Guanches have played as a spectral border of Decolonial Thought. In this essay I talk about the importance of decolonizing the image of the Ancient Canaries as repeating ghosts to demonstrate the way in which racial, gender, class, and knowledge biases in which coloniality has been historically sustained are still repeated.