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

Paperback • 2000 • English

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

By Walter Mignolo

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This book is an extended argument on the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative scholars of Latin American studies. 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 practice in the social sciences and area studies. He introduces the crucial notion of "colonial difference" into study of the modern colonial world. He also traces the emergence of new forms of knowledge, which he...Show more

General studies and General knowledge
Decolonisation of knowledge / Decoloniality

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ISBN

9780691001401

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

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

Format

Paperback

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