Local Histories/Global Designs : : Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking / / Walter D. Mignolo.

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 i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:With a New preface by the author
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 3 line illus. 3 tables. 9 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • Backmatter