The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options

Walter D. Mignolo

Published by Duke University Press 2011

The Darker Side of Western Modernity

Global Futures, Decolonial Options

Walter D. Mignolo

In the series Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822394501

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A new and more concrete understanding of the inseparability of colonialism and modernity that also explores how the rhetoric of modernity disguises the logic of coloniality and how this rhetoric has been instrumental in establishing capitalism as the econ

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Walter D. Mignolo is Director of the Institute for Global Studies in Humanities, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He is the author of The Idea of Latin America; Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking; and The Darker Side of The Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization and a co-editor of Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires.

Reviews

“It is dense, but refreshing and ultimately uplifting. Walter Mignolo’s visionary ideas about the decline and fall of (Western) modernity and hence leadership should be on the syllabus in schools, let alone higher education institutions.” - EC, The Latin American Review of Books

“Such a rich and ambitious book, apparently unafraid of taking risks, will prove controversial for it messes with many a wasp’s nest. The Darker Side of Western Modernity is recommended reading for those in search of a challenge rather than a confirmation.” - Sara Castro-Klaren, Modern Language Notes

“...the book is elegantly written, even poetic or lyrical at times...I have always appreciated Mignolo’s ability to refine and rework his ideas, and this book seems to be the best example of such evolutionary thinking yet.” - Darrel Allan Wanzer, Cultural Studies

“The Darker Side of Western Modernity is a significant, visionary, and hopeful text. More than just revealing the logic and strategy at work in the ‘darker side of Western modernity,’ this book makes evident and gives life to decolonial delinking and thought. Walter D. Mignolo’s eye is toward emergent processes and projects of political-epistemic resistance, disobedience, and transformation that give sustenance, reason, and concretion to the prospect and anticipation of other possible worlds. Through these processes and projects, Mignolo remaps the order of knowing, reading, and doing, while also indicating paths and perspectives for significantly different communal futures.”—Catherine E. Walsh, Director, Doctoral Program in Latin American Cultural Studies, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador

“Walter D. Mignolo is one of our leading theorists of coloniality/modernity and decolonial thinking. With this superb book, the third in an ‘unintended trilogy’ exploring the nature and limits of modern social thought, Mignolo continues his ambition to ‘break the Western code’ embodied in its rhetoric of modernity and logic of coloniality. This volume brings to light a darker side of the project of modernity, the oppressive relations that were at its heart, and offers decolonial options for the building of communal futures different from our pasts. It is necessary reading for all those interested in the emancipatory potential of social theory for dealing with the challenges of the twenty-first century.”—Gurminder K. Bhambra, author of Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination

“It is dense, but refreshing and ultimately uplifting. Walter Mignolo’s visionary ideas about the decline and fall of (Western) modernity and hence leadership should be on the syllabus in schools, let alone higher education institutions.”

-- Latin American Review of Books

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
About the Series Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface and Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Coloniality The Darker Side of Western Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One
Chapter One The Roads to the Future Rewesternization, Dewesternization, and Decoloniality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
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Chapter Two I Am Where I Do Remapping the Order of Knowing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter Three It Is “Our” Modernity Delinking, Independent Thought, and Decolonial Freedom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
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Chapter Four (De)Coloniality at Large Time and the Colonial Difference Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Chapter Five The Darker Side of the Enlightenment A Decolonial Reading of Kant’s Geography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
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Chapter Six The Zapatistas’ Theoretical Revolution Its Historical, Ethical, and Political Consequences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Chapter Seven Cosmopolitan Localisms Overcoming Colonial and Imperial Differences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
Afterword (Closing Down and Opening Up) “Freedom to Choose” and the Decolonial Option Notes toward Communal Futures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 458
Illustrations
- Other: 1 drawing, 2 maps, 2 figures

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Published: December 16, 2011
ISBN: 9780822394501