The politics of decolonial investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms between the sixteenth and twenty first centuries while calling for a decolonial politics that would delink from all forms of Western knowledge Inhaltsverzeichnis: Racism as we sense it today Islamophobia Hispanophobia Dispensable and bare lives Decolonizing the nation state The many faces of cosmo polis Cosmopolitan and the decolonial option From human to living rights Decolonial reflections on hemispheric partitions Delinking decoloniality and de Westernization The South of the North and the West of the East. Mariátegui and Gramsci in Latin America Sylvia Wynter : what does it mean to be human Decoloniality and phenomenology The third nomos of the earth Epilogue: Yes we can : border thinking colonial epistemic aesthesic differences and pluriversality.