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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mignolo, Walter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2012].
Edición:Paperback reissue.
Colección:Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface to the 2012 edition
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Introduction: On gnosis and the imaginary of the modern/colonial world system
  • Bording thinking and the colonial difference
  • Post-occidental reason: the crisis of occidentalism and the emergenc(y)e of border thinking
  • Human understanding and local interests: occidentalism and the (Latin) American argument
  • Are subaltern studies postmodern or postcolonial? The politics and sensibilities of geohistorical locations
  • "An other tongue": Linguistic maps, literary geographies, cultural landscapes
  • Bilanguaging love: thinking in between languages
  • Globalization/mundialización: civilizing processes and the relocation of languages and knowledges
  • Afterword: An other tongue, an other thinking, an other logic.