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The Darker Side of Western Modernity

Global Futures, Decolonial Options

By: Walter Mignolo

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The Darker Side of Western Modernity

Global Futures, Decolonial Options

By: Walter Mignolo

DIVA new and more concrete understanding of the inseparability of colonialism and modernity that also explores how the rhetoric of modernity disguises the logic of coloniality and how this rhetoric has been instrumental in establishing capitalism as the econ/div

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The Darker Side of the Renaissance

Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization

By: Walter Mignolo

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Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization

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An exploration of the role of the book, the map, and the European concept of literacy in the conquest of the New World

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University of Michigan Press

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The Politics of Decolonial Investigations

By: Walter D. Mignolo

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The Politics of Decolonial Investigations

By: Walter D. Mignolo

In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. Decolonial border thinking allows Mignolo to outline how the combination of the self-fashioned narratives of Western civilization and the hegemony of Eurocentric thought served to eradicate all knowledges in non-European languages and praxes of living and being. Mignolo also traces the geopolitical origins of racialized and gendered classifications, modernity, globalization, and cosmopolitanism, placing them all within the framework of coloniality. Drawing on the work of theorists and decolonial practitioners from the Global South and the Global East, Mignolo shows how coloniality has provoked the emergence of decolonial politics initiated by delinking from all forms of Western knowledge and subjectivities. The urgent task, Mignolo stresses, is the epistemic reconstitution of categories of thought and praxes of living destituted in the very process of building Western civilization and the idea of modernity. The overcoming of the long-lasting hegemony of the West and its distorted legacies is already underway in all areas of human existence. Mignolo underscores the relevance of the politics of decolonial investigations, in and outside the academy, to liberate ourselves from canonized knowledge, ways of knowing, and praxes of living.

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On Decoloniality

Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

By: Walter D. Mignolo,Catherine E. Walsh

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On Decoloniality

Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

By: Walter D. Mignolo,Catherine E. Walsh

In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with local histories and perspectives of struggle, they illustrate the conceptual and analytic dynamism of decolonial ways of living and thinking, as well as the creative force of resistance and re-existence. This book speaks to the urgency of these times, encourages delinkings from the colonial matrix of power and its "universals" of Western modernity and global capitalism, and engages with arguments and struggles for dignity and life against death, destruction, and civilizational despair.

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0822371774

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Local Histories/Global Designs

Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

By: Walter D. Mignolo

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Local Histories/Global Designs

Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

By: Walter D. Mignolo

Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. 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 practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of "colonial difference" in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which he calls "border thinking." Further, he expands the horizons of those debates already under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling in the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America, the Caribbean, and Latino/as in the United States. His concept of "border gnosis," or sensing and knowing by dwelling in imperial/colonial borderlands, counters the tendency of occidentalist perspectives to manage, and thus limit, understanding. In a new preface that discusses Local Histories/Global Designs as a dialogue with Hegel's Philosophy of History, Mignolo connects his argument with the unfolding of history in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

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Princeton University Press

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The Idea of Latin America

By: Walter D. Mignolo

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The Idea of Latin America

By: Walter D. Mignolo

The Idea of Latin America is a geo-political manifesto which insists on the need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe. Charts the history of the concept of Latin America from its emergence in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century through various permutations to the present day. Asks what is at stake in the survival of an idea which subdivides the Americas. Reinstates the indigenous peoples and migrations excluded by the image of a homogenous Latin America with defined borders. Insists on the pressing need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405150173

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The Darker Side of the Renaissance

Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization

By: Walter Mignolo

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Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization

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An exploration of the role of the book, the map, and the European concept of literacy in the conquest of the New World

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Writing Without Words

Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes

By: Elizabeth Hill Boone,Walter Mignolo

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Writing Without Words

Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes

By: Elizabeth Hill Boone,Walter Mignolo

The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the "full writing" of recorded speech. Writing without Words challenges this orthodoxy, and with it widespread notions of literacy and dominant views of art and literature, history and geography. Asking how knowledge was encoded and preserved in Pre-Columbian and early colonial Mesoamerican cultures, the authors focus on systems of writing that did not strive to represent speech. Their work reveals the complicity of ideology in the history of literacy, and offers new insight into the history of writing. The contributors--who include art historians, anthropologists, and literary theorists--examine the ways in which ancient Mesoamerican and Andean peoples conveyed meaning through hieroglyphic, pictorial, and coded systems, systems inseparable from the ideologies they were developed to serve. We see, then, how these systems changed with the European invasion, and how uniquely colonial writing systems came to embody the post-conquest American ideologies. The authors also explore the role of these early systems in religious discourse and their relation to later colonial writing. Bringing the insights from Mesoamerica and the Andes to bear on a fundamental exchange among art history, literary theory, semiotics, and anthropology, the volume reveals the power contained in the medium of writing. Contributors. Elizabeth Hill Boone, Tom Cummins, Stephen Houston, Mark B. King, Dana Leibsohn, Walter D. Mignolo, John Monaghan, John M. D. Pohl, Joanne Rappaport, Peter van der Loo

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Local Histories/Global Designs

Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

By: Walter Mignolo

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Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

By: Walter Mignolo

This 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." Further, he expands the horizons of those debates already under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling in the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America, the Caribbean, and Latino/as in the United States. His concept of "border gnosis," or what is known from the perspective of an empire's borderlands, counters the tendency of occidentalist perspectives to dominate, and thus limit, understanding. The book is divided into three parts: the first chapter deals with epistemology and postcoloniality; the next three chapters deal with the geopolitics of knowledge; the last three deal with the languages and cultures of scholarship. Here the author reintroduces the analysis of civilization from the perspective of globalization and argues that, rather than one "civilizing" process dominated by the West, the continually emerging subaltern voices break down the dichotomies characteristic of any cultural imperialism. By underscoring the fractures between globalization and mundializacion, Mignolo shows the locations of emerging border epistemologies, and of post-occidental reason. In a new preface that discusses Local Histories/Global Designs as a dialogue with Hegel's Philosophy of History, Mignolo connects his argument with the unfolding of history in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

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Princeton University Press

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The Darker Side of Western Modernity

Global Futures, Decolonial Options

By: Walter Mignolo

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Global Futures, Decolonial Options

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On Decoloniality

Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

By: Walter D. Mignolo,Catherine E. Walsh

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Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

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The Politics of Decolonial Investigations

By: Walter D. Mignolo

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Book's by Walter D. Mignolo

The Darker Side of Western Modernity

The Darker Side of Western Modernity

The Darker Side of the Renaissance

The Darker Side of the Renaissance

The Politics of Decolonial Investigations

The Politics of Decolonial Investigations

On Decoloniality

On Decoloniality

Local Histories/Global Designs

Local Histories/Global Designs

The Idea of Latin America

The Idea of Latin America

The Darker Side of the Renaissance

The Darker Side of the Renaissance

Writing Without Words

Writing Without Words

Local Histories/Global Designs

Local Histories/Global Designs

The Darker Side of Western Modernity

The Darker Side of Western Modernity

On Decoloniality

On Decoloniality

The Politics of Decolonial Investigations

The Politics of Decolonial Investigations

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