Journal articlePrism · January 1, 2024
In 2015 a panel was held based around a couple of key questions: what the reasons or the causes underlying the current global disorder are, and what are the venues to overcome it. As part of the panel, the author of the present article argued that the unde ...
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Journal articleFrom the European South · January 1, 2024
The announcement of this special issue stated: “We are persuaded that ‘the battle for language’ is pivotal in the battle for decolonial justice,” i.e., we recognize “the power of the word to transform the world”. My contributing goals, as far as the Palest ...
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Journal articleTheory Culture and Society · November 1, 2023
It is of concern that, until now, Western and Southern theories have not been able to provide a full conceptual understanding of the complicity of the elites and states of former colonies outside the West with the political domination they suffer from thei ...
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Journal articleCultural Dynamics · August 1, 2021
“Market” in the past 500 years became synonymous with “capitalist market” (mercantile economy, industrial economy, technological and financial economy, market democracy). Before 1500 all organization of people living together (civilizations or cultures) ha ...
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Journal articleGlobalizations · January 1, 2021
I will address here the Special Forum leading question: ‘Is an integrated theory of globalization possible (and desirable)?’ I will add: is it necessary? If it is, what for and for whom is it necessary and beneficial? I have no illusion of providing a conv ...
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Journal articleTheory Culture and Society · December 1, 2020
I argue that the lived experience we, the human species, are going through in 2020 is no longer an epoch of changes but a change of epoch. Post-pandemic (and any other areas of experience you could post-) is becoming meaningless in a change of epoch. My ar ...
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Journal articleRevista Lusofona De Educacao · January 1, 2020
This essay aims to make a critical reflection on modernity and the way the West has understood it. From some Latin American authors, such as Dussel and Quijano, who advance the concepts of transmodernity and colo-niality, respectively, and the dialogue wit ...
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Journal articleJournal of Speculative Philosophy · January 1, 2018
I attempt a dialogue between phenomenology (Husserl) and decoloniality (Quijano), understanding that both are theoretical frames by means of which transcendental phenomenology and the lifeworld, on the one hand, and modernity/coloniality, on the other, cam ...
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Journal articleAfterall · January 1, 2017
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Walter D. Mignolo describes the necessary work of delinking from Western narratives in order to relink and affirm the modes of existence we want to preserve. ...
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Journal articleRevista Brasileira De Ciencias Sociais · January 1, 2017
This article arguments that “coloniality” is the darkest side of Western modernity, a matrix of power that emerged between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment during the colonization of the Americas. This process is culminating in the capitalist neoliber ...
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Journal articleSociedade E Estado · January 1, 2014
This work questions the uncritical use of the word "democracy." It draws a distinction between democracy as a means and democracy as an end. It argues that the ideal of full, fair and harmonious life is not unique to democracy, and that there are other way ...
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Journal articleCurrent Sociology · January 1, 2014
The cycle of the 'social sciences' as they were historically formed at the beginning of the nineteenth century is coming to its close. The Gulbenkian Report (1995) was an effort to maintain Western epistemic hegemony by 'opening the social sciences,' ackno ...
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Journal articleComparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East · December 1, 2013
Mignolo's essay responds to the mission statement published in the summer 2013 issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The essay asks: How could a journal based in the United States "decenter" itself? Can CSSAAME transcend a ...
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Journal articleRevista De Filosofia Venezuela · January 1, 2013
These reflections argue the need to analyze the geopolitics of feeling, thinking and knowing. Accomplishing this assumes disengagement from the universalist conception of knowledge. It must be accepted that knowledge constructed by modernity and Eurocentri ...
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Journal articleJournal of Anthropological Research · January 1, 2011
The "Global South" is a fashionable expression. It appears in academic journals, in the title of university academic centers, among activists around the world. I argue that from the perspective of capitalism and expansion of Western values, the "Global Sou ...
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Journal articleCampaign for the Public University · November 23, 2010
Reprint of a long op ed published in my blog, and of a shorter version
published in Pagina 12, Argentina under the title "Retorica del desarrollo y colonialidad del saber" http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/universidad/10-124958-2009-05-15.html This is a We ...
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Journal articleOtros Logos. Revista de Estuidios Criticos · 2010
Resumen Desde hace algún tiempo los académicos tuvieron como supuesto que el sujeto cognoscente en las disciplinas del saber es transparente, está apartado de lo que conoce y no es tocado por la configuración geopolítica de un mundo en donde las personas y ...
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Journal articleEl pensamiento filosofico latinoamerica, del Cabire y "latino". 1300-2000 · 2010
Reprint of an article originally published in Tabula Rasa 8, 2008, Universidad de Cundinamarca, Colombia. ...
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Journal article · December 1, 2009
Common wisdom has it that secularism dominated the project of the second modernity (the Enlightenment) and ended with the enchanted world that the very rhetoric of secularism used to displace theology and to convert religion in a field of study. I argue th ...
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Journal articleEuropean Journal of Social Theory · May 1, 2006
'Borders' will be in the twenty-first century what 'frontiers' where in the nineteenth. Frontiers were conceived as the line indicating the last point in the relentless march of civilization. On the one side of the frontiers was civilization; on the other, ...
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Journal articleSocial Epistemology · March 1, 2005
There is no safe place and no single locus of enunciation from where the universal could be articulated for all and forever. Hindu nationalism and Western neoliberalism are entangled in a long history of the logic of coloniality (domination, oppression, ex ...
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Journal articleLatin American Subaltern Studies Revisited., Gustavo Verdesio, ed. Dispositio/n 52. American Journal of Cultural Histories and Theories. · 2005Cite
Journal articleReview · December 1, 2002
Whatever the future of the Zapatistas's uprising would be, the theoretical revolution they enacted it is here to stay. Theoretical revolutions are not supposed to come from popular sectors, without the necessary research and communicating the results by in ...
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Journal articleJournal of Iberian and Latin American Research · January 1, 1999
The end of the twentieth century has brought a new series of problems not only in the socio-historical and economic order of things but in the domain of knowledge as well. To say that we do not have models or concepts to understand new social configuration ...
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