On Decoloniality : Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

Mignolo, Walter D.; Walsh, Catherine E.

ISBN 10: 082237109X / ISBN 13: 9780822371090

Published by Duke University Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Decoloniality : Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082237109X
• ISBN 13: 9780822371090
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with local histories and perspectives of struggle, they illustrate the conceptual and analytic dynamism of decolonial ways of living and thinking, as well as the creative force of resistance and re-existence. This book speaks to the urgency of these times, encourages delinkings from the colonial matrix of power and its "universals" of Western modernity and global capitalism, and engages with arguments and struggles for dignity and life against death, destruction, and civilizational despair.

About the Author

Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Literature at Duke University and is the author and editor of several books, including The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options, also published by Duke University Press. 

Catherine E. Walsh is Senior Professor in the Area of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Ecuador and the author and editor of numerous books, most recently, Pedagogías decoloniales: Prácticas insurgentes de resistir, (re)existir y (re)vivir, Tomo II.