Globalization and the Decolonial Option [Hardcover]

This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of coloniality , understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de-colonization of knowledge as an epistemological restitution with political and ethical implications.

Epistemic decolonization, or de-coloniality, becomes the horizon to imagine and act toward global futures in which the notion of a political enemy is replaced by intercultural communication and towards an-other rationality that puts life first and that places institutions at its service, rather than the other way around.

The volume is profoundly inter- and trans-disciplinary, with authors writing from many intellectual, transdisciplinary, and institutional spaces.

This book was published as a special issue of Cultural Studies.

1. Introduction: Coloniality of Power and De-Colonial Thinking  Walter D. Mignolo  I The Emergence of An-Other-Paradigm  2. Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality An?bal Quijano  3. Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise: The Latin American Modernity/Coloniality Research Program Arturo Escobar  4. The Epistemic Decolonial Turn: Beyond Political-Economy Paradigms Ram?n Grosfoguel  5. Shifting the Geopolitics of Critical Knowledge: Decolonial Thought and Cultural Studies Others in the Andes Catherine Walsh  II (De)Colonization of Knowledges and of Beings  6. On the Coloniality of Being: Contributions to the Development of a Concept Nelson Maldonado-Torres  7. Decolonizatiol“p