Mignolo, Walter,

The politics of decolonial investigations / Walter D. Mignolo. - Durham: Duke University Press, 2021 - xxvii, 707 pages : illustrations, maps ; - On Decoloniality .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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"--

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Decolonization.
Postcolonialism.
Racism
Knowledge, Theory of
Civilization, Western.
Civilization, Modern.

325.3 MIG