Learning to unlearn
Subtitle: decolonial reflections from Eurasia and the Americas
By: Madina V. Tlostanova and Walter D. Mignolo
Contributors: Mignolo, Walter
Series: Transoceanic studies; Transoceanic studies
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780814211885; 9780814292877
Subjects: Postcolonialism; Sociology of Knowledge; Education; Philosophy; Epistemics; Imperialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The logic of coloniality and the limits of postcoloniality : colonial studies, postcoloniality, and decoloniality; title: Theorizing from the borders; Shifting to the geo- and body politics of knowledge; title: Transcultural tricksters in between empires : "suspended" indigenous agency in the non-European Russian/Soviet (ex-)colonies and the decolonial option; title: Non-European Soviet ex-colonies and the coloniality of gender, or how to unlearn Western feminism in Eurasian borderlands; title: Who speaks for the "human" in human rights? Dispensable and bare lives; title: Thinking decolonially : citizenship, knowledge, and the limits of humanity; title: Globalization and the geopolitics of knowledge : the role of the humanities in the corporate university.