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Author Mignolo, Walter, author.

Title The politics of decolonial investigations / Walter D. Mignolo
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 707 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series On decoloniality
On decoloniality.
Contents Racism as we sense it today -- Islamophobia/Hispanophobia -- Dispensable and bare lives -- Decolonizing the nation-state -- The many faces of cosmo-polis -- Cosmopolitan and the decolonial option -- From "human" to "living" rights -- Decolonial reflections on hemispheric partitions -- Delinking, decoloniality, and de-Westernization -- The South of the North and the West of the East. -- Mariátegui and Gramsci in "Latin" America -- Sylvia Wynter : what does it mean to be human? -- Decoloniality and phenomenology -- The third nomos of the earth -- Epilogue: Yes, we can : border thinking, colonial epistemic/aesthesic differences and pluriversality
Summary "Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how colonialty has operated around the world in its myriad forms between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries while calling for a decolonial politics that would delink from all forms of Western knowledge."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 641-684) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Decolonization.
Postcolonialism.
Racism -- Political aspects
Knowledge, Theory of -- Political aspects
Civilization, Western.
Civilization, Modern.
postcolonialism.
PHILOSOPHY / Political
Civilization, Modern
Civilization, Western
Decolonization
Knowledge, Theory of -- Political aspects
Postcolonialism
Racism -- Political aspects
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020042287
ISBN 1478002573
9781478002574