Local histories/global designs : coloniality, subaltern knowledges, and border thinking / Walter D. Mignolo ;with a new preface.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mignolo, Walter.

Series:

Princeton studies in culture/power/history.

Princeton studies in culture/power/history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies.

Postcolonialism.

Culture.

Knowledge, Theory of--Political aspects.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Hermeneutics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

With a New preface by the author

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Local Histories/Global Designs is 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" in the 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 South/Central America, the Caribbean, and Latino/as in the United States. His concept of "border gnosis," or sensing and knowing by dwelling in imperial/colonial borderlands, counters the tendency of occidentalist perspectives to manage, and thus limit, understanding. In a new preface that discusses Local Histories/Global Designs as a dialogue with Hegel's Philosophy of History, Mignolo connects his argument with the unfolding of history in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface to the 2012 Edition

Preface and Acknowledgments

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

Part One. IN SEARCH OF AN OTHER LOGIC

Part Two. I AM WHERE I THINK: THE GEOPOLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE AND COLONIAL EPISTEMIC DIFFERENCES

Part Three. SUBALTERNITY AND THE COLONIAL DIFFERENCE: LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND KNOWLEDGES

AFTERWORD. An Other Tongue, An Other Thinking, An Other Logic

Bibliography

Index

Back matter

Notes:

First published: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613883933

9781283571487

128357148X

9781400845064

1400845068

OCLC:

845246058