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Author Mignolo, Walter, auteur

Title The politics of decolonial investigations / Walter D. Mignolo
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2021
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Description xxvii, 707 pages : illustrations, cartes; 24 cm
Series 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 coloniality 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"-- Résumé de l'éditeur
Notes Comprend un index
Bibliography Bibliographie : pages 641-684
Subject Decolonization
Postcolonialism
Racism -- Political aspects
Knowledge, Theory of -- Political aspects
Civilization, Western
Civilization, Modern
postcolonialism.
Civilization, Modern.
Civilization, Western.
Decolonization.
Knowledge, Theory of -- Political aspects.
Postcolonialism.
Racism -- Political aspects.
Décolonisation.
Postcolonialisme.
Racisme -- Aspect politique.
Théorie de la connaissance -- Aspect politique.
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