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082 _a901 MIG
100 _aWalter Mignolo
245 _aLocal histories/global designs
_b : coloniality, subaltern knowledges, and border thinking
_c/Walter Mignolo
260 _aPrinceton, New Jersey
_b : Princeton University Press
_c, 2012.
300 _axxxv, 371 pages
_c;24 cm.
365 _b2126
490 _aPrinceton studies in culture/power/history.
505 _a 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.
520 _aExplores 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.
650 _aHistory
655 _aPostcolonialism.
_bKnowledge, Theory of--Political aspects
700 _aWalter Mignolo
942 _cBOOK
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