The darker side of Western modernity :

Mignolo, Walter.

The darker side of Western modernity : global futures, decolonial options / Walter D. Mignolo. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2011. - xxxvii, 408 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Latin america otherwise: languages, empires, nations . - Latin America otherwise. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The roads to the future : rewesternization, dewesternization, and decoloniality -- I am where I do: remapping the order of knowing -- It is "our" modernity : delinking, independent thought, and decolonial freedom -- (De)coloniality at large : time and the colonial difference -- The darker side of the enlightenment : a decolonial reading of Kant's geography -- The Zapatistas? theoretical revolution : its historical, ethical, and political consequences -- Cosmopolitanism, communalism, and the decolonial option : overcoming colonial and imperial differences -- Afterword : "freedom to choose?" and the decolonial option : notes toward communal.

9780822350606 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822350781 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Civilization, Western.
Civilization, Modern.
Decolonization.
Forecasting.

CB245 / .M495 2011