Description: Local Histories/Global DesignsColoniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking Author(s): Walter D. Mignolo Format: Paperback Publisher: Princeton University Press, United States Imprint: Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 9780691156095, 978-0691156095 Synopsis 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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Book Title: Local Histories/Global Designs
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Name: Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Government, Anthropology, History
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 567 g
Author: Walter D. Mignolo
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
Format: Paperback