Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

Explores the crucial notion of "colonial difference" in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which author calls "border thinking". This title expands the horizons of debates under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling in the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America.

• | By (Author): Walter D. Mignolo (Author)
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 26, 2012
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 416 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 0691156093
• | ISBN-13: 9780691156095