Local Histories/Global Designs Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

Name: Local Histories/Global Designs Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking
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ISBN: 9780691156095

ISBN-10: 0691156093

ISBN-13: 9780691156095

Edition: 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Walter D. Mignolo

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Local Histories/Global Designsis 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" into 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…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

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 of "The Idea of Latin America".



Preface to the 2012 Edition


Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction On Gnosis and the Imaginary of the Modern/Colonial World System



In Search of an Other Logic



Border Thinking and the Colonial Difference



I Am Where I Think: The Geopolitics of Knowledge and Colonial Epistemic Differences



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



Subalternity and the Colonial Difference: Languages, Literatures, and Knowledges



"An Other Tongue": Linguistics Maps, Literary Geographies, Cultural Landscapes



Bilanguaging Love: Thinking in between Languages



Globalization/Mundializaciï¿½n: Civilizing Processes and the Relocation of Languages and Knowledges


Afterword: An Other Tongue, An Other Thinking, An Other Logic


Bibliography


Index