On decoloniality: concepts, analytics, and praxis.
Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh
- Durham Duke University Press 2018
- xii, 291 p.
- On Decoloniality. .
Introduction -- 1 The decolonial for resurgences, shifts, and movements -- 2 Insurgency and decolonial prospect, praxis, and project -- 3 Interculturality and decoloniality -- 4 On decolonial dangers, decolonial cracks, and decolonial pedagogies rising -- 5 What does it mean to decolonize? -- 6 The conceptual triad : modernity/coloniality/decoloniality -- 7 The invention of the human and the three pillars of the colonial matrix of power (racism, sexism, and nature) -- 8 Colonial/imperial differences : classifying and inventing global orders of lands, seas, and living organisms -- 9 Eurocentrism and coloniality : the question of the totality of knowledge -- 10 Decoloniality is an option, not a mission
This book introduce the concept of decoloniality by providing a theoretical overview and discussing concrete examples of decolonial projects in action.