Local Histories/Global Designs : Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking (New in Paper).

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 poi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mignolo, Walter D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Colección:Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
Temas:
Colonies.
Postcolonialism.
Culture.
Knowledge, Theory of > Political aspects.
Hermeneutics.
Postcolonialisme.
Théorie de la connaissance > Aspect politique.
Herméneutique.
colonies.
postcolonialism.
hermeneutics.
Colonies
Culture
Hermeneutics
Knowledge, Theory of > Political aspects
Postcolonialism
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (417 pages)
ISBN:9781400845064
1400845068

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