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

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

Mignolo, Walter D.

Paperback

Series: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History

AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0691156093
ISBN13: 9780691156095
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Aug 26 2012
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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