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

TitleLocal histories/global designs: coloniality, subaltern knowledges, and border thinking
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsMignolo, Walter
Series TitlePrinceton studies in culture/power/history
Number of Pages371
PublisherPrinceton University Press
CityPrinceton, N.J. ; Woodstock
ISBN Number978-0-691-15609-5
Call NumberJV51 .M54 2012
Notes'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/mundializacioĢn: civilizing processes and the relocation of languages and knowledges -- Afterword: An other tongue, an other thinking, an other logic\n - Angela Okune'
Short TitleLocal histories/global designs