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Decolonizing the Westernized University

Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without

By: Ramón Grosfoguel,Roberto Hernández,Ernesto Rosen Velásquez

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Decolonizing the Westernized University

Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without

By: Ramón Grosfoguel,Roberto Hernández,Ernesto Rosen Velásquez

An underlying assumption undergirding institutions of higher education is that they serve as a means to upward socioeconomic mobility and, in turn, a way to address poverty that is tied to certain racialized/sexualized bodies. Although the education crisis is not an American or European problem in the geographic sense, but instead a global problem that plays itself out differentially across space and time, this volume focuses on the westernized university, in the US and abroad. It asks questions about what is westernized about the university, what its aims are, and how those who work in, through and outside these sites of knowledge production—with local or global social movements—can participate in the slow, careful process of decolonizing the westernized university. Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without provides a sharper understanding of the crisis and the responses to the westernized university at multiple sites around the world. As an intervention in the philosophy of education discourse, which tends to assume the university is a neutral space, this collection will be of particular value to students and scholars working in philosophy of education, Latina/o philosophy, Africana philosophy, social epistemology, education, cultural studies, and ethnic studies, as well as to intellectual activists in the United States, south of the border, and around the world.

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Lexington Books

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1498503764

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Against War

Views from the Underside of Modernity

By: Nelson Maldonado-Torres

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Against War

Views from the Underside of Modernity

By: Nelson Maldonado-Torres

DIVAn analysis of Western attitudes toward war from a subaltern perspective that brings new insights into Western philosophical paradigms. /div

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Duke University Press

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0822341700

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Latino/as in the World-system

Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century U.S. Empire

By: Ramon Grosfoguel,Nelson Maldonado-Torres,Jose David Saldivar

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Latino/as in the World-system

Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century U.S. Empire

By: Ramon Grosfoguel,Nelson Maldonado-Torres,Jose David Saldivar

Contributors Immanuel Wallerstein, Enrique Dussel, Walter Mignolo, Agustin Lao, Lewis Gordon, James V. Fenelon, Roberto Hernandez, James Cohen, Santiago Slabosky, Susanne Jonas, and Thomas Reifer. By the mid-twenty-first century, white Euro-Americans will be a demographic minority in the United States and Latino/as will be the largest minority (25 percent). These changes bring about important challenges at the heart of the contemporary debates about political transformations in the United States and around the world. Latino/as are multiracial (Afro-latinos, Indo-latinos, Asian-latinos, and Euro-latinos), multi-ethnic, multireligious (Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, indigenous, and African spiritualities), and of varied legal status (immigrants, citizens, and illegal migrants). This collection addresses for the first time the potential of these diverse Latino/a spiritualities, origins, and statuses against the landscape of decolonization of the U.S. economic and cultural empire in the twenty-first century. Some authors explore the impact of Indo-latinos and Afro-latinos in the United States and others discuss the conflicting interpretations and political conflicts arising from the "Latinization" of the United States.

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214

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Routledge

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1317256972

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9781317256977

Seeing Metal Music in Latin America and the Caribbean

By: Nelson Varas-Díaz,Daniel Nevárez Araújo

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Seeing Metal Music in Latin America and the Caribbean

By: Nelson Varas-Díaz,Daniel Nevárez Araújo

For many fans, metal was visual before it was aural. This book explores the visual dimensions of metal music from the specific socio-historic, geographic, and political positionality of Latin America and the Caribbean where this visual register allows creators and consumers to engage in four distinct strategies (i.e., seeing, revealing, inverting, and appearing) as part of what the authors have termed “extreme decolonial dialogues.” They support their position through a diverse lens that examines essential aspects of the visual dimensions of metal music: album artwork, clothing, film, sites, and activist practices.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666919799

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Against War

Views from the Underside of Modernity

By: Nelson Maldonado-Torres

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Views from the Underside of Modernity

By: Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Nelson Maldonado-Torres argues that European modernity has become inextricable from the experience of the warrior and conqueror. In Against War, he develops a powerful critique of modernity, and he offers a critical response combining ethics, political theory, and ideas rooted in Christian and Jewish thought. Maldonado-Torres focuses on the perspectives of those who inhabit the underside of western modernity, particularly Jewish, black, and Latin American theorists. He analyzes the works of the Jewish Lithuanian-French philosopher and religious thinker Emmanuel Levinas, the Martiniquean psychiatrist and political thinker Frantz Fanon, and the Catholic Argentinean-Mexican philosopher, historian, and theologian Enrique Dussel. Considering Levinas’s critique of French liberalism and Nazi racial politics, and the links between them, Maldonado-Torres identifies a “master morality” of dominion and control at the heart of western modernity. This master morality constitutes the center of a warring paradigm that inspires and legitimizes racial policies, imperial projects, and wars of invasion. Maldonado-Torres refines the description of modernity’s war paradigm and the Levinasian critique through Fanon’s phenomenology of the colonized and racial self and the politics of decolonization, which he reinterprets in light of the Levinasian conception of ethics. Drawing on Dussel’s genealogy of the modern imperial and warring self, Maldonado-Torres theorizes race as the naturalization of war’s death ethic. He offers decolonial ethics and politics as an antidote to modernity’s master morality and the paradigm of war. Against War advances the de-colonial turn, showing how theory and ethics cannot be conceived without politics, and how they all need to be oriented by the imperative of decolonization in the modern/colonial and postmodern world.

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Duke University Press

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0822388995

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9780822388999

Latino/as in the World-system

Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century U.S. Empire

By: Ramon Grosfoguel,Nelson Maldonado-Torres,Jose David Saldivar

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Latino/as in the World-system

Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century U.S. Empire

By: Ramon Grosfoguel,Nelson Maldonado-Torres,Jose David Saldivar

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Decolonizing the Westernized University

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Seeing Metal Music in Latin America and the Caribbean

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