The invention (Benedict Anderson, 1991) of modern nation-states in the european metropole and imposed by colonial invasions throughout the world has been a model contested since the beginning by the indigenous peoples in the colonies. Politics of recognition by settler nation-states like Canada supposes the idea of integration as assimilation inside a multicultural neoliberal state. To confront such politics Mohawk Nation in Canada is developing what Audra Simpson calls the politics of refusal, in the way they as Mohawk Nation decides to not recognize the settler nation-state that still discriminate them. „There is a political alternative to “recognition” the much sought-after and presumed „good“ of multicultural politics. This alternative is “refusal”“ (Simpson, 2014).

Some other examples on how to plan and develop political and social communities outside the frame of the modern nation-state focus their attention on the communal ways of reproducing life and territorial bonds that inspired the work of Murray Bookchin, and his works on confederalism and municipalism is one of the inspirations Abdullah Ocalan has focused on to develop a political, social strategy to go beyond the nation-state formula when thinking in the future for a Kurdish confederated plurination under an ecofeminist, communal, self-administrated diverse society.

This model has been contested not only by the peoples invaded in the colonies, but also inside the metropole where nation-state powers could not erase completely the inner realities of other peoples, nations and communities different from the assigned and imposed national identity and trying to reclaim even in these days their rights to be and exist not only individually but also and especially collectively, that is the case of the Basque People for instance.

With this paper I want to focus on the possible exchanges of practices and learnings among matriarchal conception of nations or matrias, the nations without state and the indigenous and native struggles, the conditions and needs to approach them through decolonial and decolonization practices and in dialogue with racialized and minoritized movements and representatives to build plurinations that do not reproduce the modern nation-state system´s inequalities, oppressions and colonialities.

Begoña Dorronsoro is a decolonial feminist and activist of Basque origin, with a degree in Biology (Ecology), a Master on Environmental Impact Assessment and Restoration and Master on Feminist and Gender Studies all of them obtained at the University of the Basque Country (U.P.V.-E.H.U.). She has also more than ten years of experience in volunteering and working at some basque ngos for international development with indigenous counterparts and projects mainly in Colombia, Bolivia and Guatemala. At this moment she is a Ph.D. candidate at the „Post-colonialisms and global citizenship“ doctoral program at CES Centre of Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

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