Local histories/global designs
Walter Mignolo
Local histories/global designs : coloniality, subaltern knowledges, and border thinking /Walter Mignolo - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press , 2012. - xxxv, 371 pages ;24 cm. - Princeton studies in culture/power/history. .
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 tonge": 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.
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.
9780691156095
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Postcolonialism.--Knowledge, Theory of--Political aspects
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Local histories/global designs : coloniality, subaltern knowledges, and border thinking /Walter Mignolo - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press , 2012. - xxxv, 371 pages ;24 cm. - Princeton studies in culture/power/history. .
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 tonge": 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.
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.
9780691156095
International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002
History
Postcolonialism.--Knowledge, Theory of--Political aspects
901 MIG
