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Local Histories/Global Designs - Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, And Border Thinking

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Decolonizing knowledge for a globalized world.

This book is a must-read for those interested in understanding how Western colonial power has influenced social sciences and area studies. Mignolo's argument sheds light on the need to decolonize knowledge and to recognize the diverse and subaltern voices that have been historically silenced.

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Local Histories/Global Designs - Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, And Border Thinking

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ISBN: 9780691156095
Date of Publication: 2012-08-26
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Politics, Sociology, History, Philosophy
Goodreads rating: 4.04
(rated by 113 readers)

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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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Decolonizing knowledge for a globalized world.

This book is a must-read for those interested in understanding how Western colonial power has influenced social sciences and area studies. Mignolo's argument sheds light on the need to decolonize knowledge and to recognize the diverse and subaltern voices that have been historically silenced.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.