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Local histories/global designs : coloniality, subaltern knowledges, and border thinking /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2012].
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| Edición: | Paperback reissue. |
| Colección: | Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. 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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| Notas: | Originally published: 2000. Paperback reissue, with a new preface, 2012 |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxv, 371 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400845064 1400845068 9781283571487 128357148X |