Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking
Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking
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Abstract
This book is an extended argument about the “coloniality” of power. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, this book points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. It explores the crucial notion of “colonial difference” in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which the book calls “border thinking.” Further, the book expands the horizons of those debates already under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling on the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America, the Caribbean, and Latino/as in the United States. The book's 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. A new preface discusses this book as a dialogue with Hegel's Philosophy of History.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
On Gnosis and the Imaginary of the Modern/Colonial World System
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Part One In Search of an Other Logic
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Part Two I am Where I Think: The Geopolitics of Knowledge and Colonial Epistemic Differences
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Part Three Subalternity and the Colonial Difference: Languages, Literatures, and Knowledges
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