Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border ThinkingThis book is an extended argument on the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative scholars of Latin American studies. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practice in the social sciences and area studies. He introduces the crucial notion of "colonial difference" into study of the modern colonial world. He also traces the emergence of new forms of knowledge, which he calls "border thinking." |
Contents
On Gnosis and the Imaginary of the ModernColonial | 3 |
Chapter 1 | 49 |
I AM WHERE I THINK THE GEOPOLITICS | 89 |
Chapter 4 | 172 |
SUBALTERNITY AND THE COLONIAL | 215 |
Thinking in between Languages | 250 |
Civilizing Processes | 278 |
Afterword | 313 |
339 | |
367 | |
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Local Histories/global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and ... Walter Mignolo No preview available - 2000 |
Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and ... Walter Mignolo No preview available - 2000 |