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Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking
Walter D. Mignolo
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Description for Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking
Paperback. Explores the crucial notion of "colonial difference" in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which author calls "border thinking". This title expands the horizons of debates under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling in the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 416 pages, 3 line illus. 3 tables. 9 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTQ; HBTR; JFFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 594.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History
Condition
New
Weight
591g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691156095
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V9780691156095
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About Walter D. Mignolo
Walter D. Mignolo is the William H. Wannamaker Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University. This book is the third of a trilogy that includes The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization and The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options. He is also the author ... Read more
Reviews for Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking
"Postmodernism would remain Eurocentric without a counteracting postcoloniality
without the subaltern rationality that Mignolo sees emerging at the border of modernity/coloniality."
Barry Allen, Common Knowledge
without the subaltern rationality that Mignolo sees emerging at the border of modernity/coloniality."
Barry Allen, Common Knowledge