Local histories/global designs : coloniality, subaltern knowledges, and border thinking /

Mignolo, Walter.

Local histories/global designs : coloniality, subaltern knowledges, and border thinking / Walter D. Mignolo ; with a new preface by the author. - Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2012. - xxxv, 371 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Princeton studies in culture/power/history . - Princeton studies in culture/power/history. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-365) and index.

Introduction: On gnosis and the imaginary of the modern/colonial world system -- Bording thinking and the colonial difference -- Post-occidental reason: the crisis of occidentalism and the emergenc(y)e of border thinking -- Human understanding and local interests: occidentalism and the (Latin) American argument -- Are subaltern studies postmodern or postcolonial? The politics and sensibilities of geohistorical locations -- "An other tonge": Linguistic maps, literary geographies, cultural landscapes -- Bilanguaging love: thinking in between languages -- Globalization/mundialización: civilizing processes and the relocation of languages and knowledges -- Afterword: An other tongue, an other thinking, an other logic.

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Colonies.
Postcolonialism.
Culture.
Knowledge, Theory of--Political aspects.
Hermeneutics.
Colonies.
Culture.
Hermeneutics.
Knowledge, Theory of--Political aspects.
Postcolonialism.

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