On Decoloniality
Title | On Decoloniality PDF eBook |
Author | Walter D. Mignolo |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2018-06 |
Genre | Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | 9780822371090 |
Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh introduce the concept of decoloniality by providing a theoretical overview and discussing concrete examples of decolonial projects in action.
The Politics of Decolonial Investigations
Title | The Politics of Decolonial Investigations PDF eBook |
Author | Walter D. Mignolo |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 399 |
Release | 2021-07-09 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1478002573 |
In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. Decolonial border thinking allows Mignolo to outline how the combination of the self-fashioned narratives of Western civilization and the hegemony of Eurocentric thought served to eradicate all knowledges in non-European languages and praxes of living and being. Mignolo also traces the geopolitical origins of racialized and gendered classifications, modernity, globalization, and cosmopolitanism, placing them all within the framework of coloniality. Drawing on the work of theorists and decolonial practitioners from the Global South and the Global East, Mignolo shows how coloniality has provoked the emergence of decolonial politics initiated by delinking from all forms of Western knowledge and subjectivities. The urgent task, Mignolo stresses, is the epistemic reconstitution of categories of thought and praxes of living destituted in the very process of building Western civilization and the idea of modernity. The overcoming of the long-lasting hegemony of the West and its distorted legacies is already underway in all areas of human existence. Mignolo underscores the relevance of the politics of decolonial investigations, in and outside the academy, to liberate ourselves from canonized knowledge, ways of knowing, and praxes of living.
Postcoloniality - Decoloniality - Black Critique
Title | Postcoloniality - Decoloniality - Black Critique PDF eBook |
Author | Sabine Broeck |
Publisher | Campus Verlag |
Total Pages | 401 |
Release | 2014-11-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3593501929 |
How can Western Modernity be analyzed and critiqued through the lens of enslavement and colonial history? The volume maps out answers to this question from the fields of Postcolonial, Decolonial, and Black Studies, delineating converging and diverging positions, approaches, and trajectories. It assembles contributions by renowned scholars of the respective fields, intervening in History, Sociology, Political Sciences, Gender Studies, Cultural and Literary Studies, and Philosophy."
Smash the Pillars
Title | Smash the Pillars PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa F. Weiner |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 277 |
Release | 2018-06-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1498554261 |
Smash the Pillars builds on the efforts by scholars and activists to decolonize Dutch history and memory, as they resist the epistemological violence imposed by the state, its institutions, and dominant narratives. Contributions offer an unparalleled glimpse into decolonial activism in the Dutch kingdom and provide us with a new lens to view contemporary decolonial efforts. The book argues that to fully decolonize Dutch society, the current social organization in the Kingdom of the Netherlands relying on separate pillars for each religious and/or racial group, must be dismantled.
On Decoloniality
Title | On Decoloniality PDF eBook |
Author | Walter D. Mignolo |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2018-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822371774 |
In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with local histories and perspectives of struggle, they illustrate the conceptual and analytic dynamism of decolonial ways of living and thinking, as well as the creative force of resistance and re-existence. This book speaks to the urgency of these times, encourages delinkings from the colonial matrix of power and its "universals" of Western modernity and global capitalism, and engages with arguments and struggles for dignity and life against death, destruction, and civilizational despair.
Decoloniality, Language and Literacy
Title | Decoloniality, Language and Literacy PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn McKinney |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 318 |
Release | 2021-12-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1788929268 |
Through a range of unconventional genres, representations of data, and dialogic, reflective narratives alongside more traditional academic genres, this book engages with contexts of decoloniality and border thinking in the Global South. It addresses processes of knowledge production and participation in the highly divided and unequal schooling and higher education system in South Africa, and highlights the consequences of the monolingual myth in post-colonial education, demonstrating opportunities for learning provided by translanguaging. It explores both embodied, multimodal and multilingual instances of knowledge-making in teaching and teacher education that take place outside but alongside formal classroom, lecture and seminar modes, and the positionality and learning experiences of teacher educators in science, literacy and language across the curriculum. The book is not only transdisciplinary but also captures the learning that takes place beyond the borders of disciplines and formal classroom spaces.
The Darker Side of Western Modernity
Title | The Darker Side of Western Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Mignolo |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 452 |
Release | 2011-12-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822350785 |
DIVA new and more concrete understanding of the inseparability of colonialism and modernity that also explores how the rhetoric of modernity disguises the logic of coloniality and how this rhetoric has been instrumental in establishing capitalism as the econ/div