Critical Theory of Coloniality [Paperback]

Introduction: The emergence of a Critical Theory of Coloniality

1. Colonial Capitalism and Theoretical Criticism: Intersections between the Global South and the Global North

2. Critical Theory of Coloniality and Internal Colonialism

3. Narratives of the Crisis: Between neoliberal recoloniality and the versions in dispute

4. Sociological Critique of Oligarchic Power

5. Impasses of development, sociological knowledge and uncertainties of peripheral societies

6. Thinking about the convivialist heterotopia: Territory, love and the common good

7. Bien Vivir and Postcolonial Democracy: The Case of Indigenous Communities in Andean America

Conclusion

Critical Theory of Coloniality: Towards a plural, decolonised, cosmopolitan and border critical theory

This book reveals how the critique of the domination of capitalism inaugurated by the Frankfurt School becomes pluriversal, motivating the historical Critical Theory of Coloniality (CTC) dialogue between the Global South and the Global North.

This book reveals how the critique of the domination of capitalism inaugurated by the Frankfurt School becomes pluriversal, motivating the historical Critical Theory of Coloniality (CTC) dialogue between the Global South and the Global North.

CTC expresses the emergence and historical actuality of a set of intellectual fields aimed at denouncing domination and promoting emancipatory ideas at the borders of colonial capitalism. The book argues that the actuality of the CTC relies on the importance of valuing theorlCA