The darker side of Western modernity : global futures, decolonial options

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The darker side of Western modernity : global futures, decolonial options

Walter D. Mignolo

(Latin America otherwise)

Duke University Press, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-388) and index

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During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of Western modernity, a complex matrix of power that has been created and controlled by Western men and institutions from the Renaissance, when it was driven by Christian theology, through the late twentieth century and the dictates of neoliberalism. This cycle of coloniality is coming to an end. Two main forces are challenging Western leadership in the early twenty-first century. One of these, "dewesternization," is an irreversible shift to the East in struggles over knowledge, economics, and politics. The second force is "decoloniality." Mignolo explains that decoloniality requires delinking from the colonial matrix of power underlying Western modernity to imagine and build global futures in which human beings and the natural world are no longer exploited in the relentless quest for wealth accumulation.

Table of Contents

About the Series ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Coloniality: The Darker Side of Western Modernity 1 Part One 1. The Roads to the Future: Rewesternization, Dewesternization, and Decoloniality 27 Part Two 2. I Am Where I Do: Remapping the Order of Knowing 77 3. It Is "Our" Modernity: Delinking, Independent Thought, and Decolonial Freedom 118 Part Three 4. (De)Coloniality at Large: Time and the Colonial Difference 149 5. The Darker Side of Enlightenment: A Decolonial Reading of Kant's Geography 181 Part Four 6. The Zapatistas' Theoretical Revolution: Its Historical, Ethical, and Political Consequences 213 7. Cosmopolitan Localisms: Overcoming Colonial and Imperial Differences 252 Afterword. "Freedom to Choose" and the Decolonial Option: Notes toward Communal Futures 295 Notes 337 Bibliography 365 Index 389

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