Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

by Walter D. Mignolo

Book Overview

Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of "colonial difference" in the study of the modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691156093
• ISBN13: 9780691156095
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"