Walter D. (Hrsg.) Mignolo

Globalization and the Decolonial Option

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This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of &quote;coloniality&quote;, understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de-colonization of knowledge as an epistemological restitution with political and ethical implications.Epistemic decolonization, or de-coloniality, becomes the horizon to imagine and act toward global futures in which the notion of a p… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Escobar, Arturo (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-317-96670-8
EAN: 9781317966708
Produktnummer: 25392770
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 424 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'441 KB

Über den Autor

Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies, Professor in the Program of Literature and Adjunct in Cultural Anthropology. He is also Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University.Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, and Adjunct in the Department of Geography and of Communication, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.