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The Darker Side of Western Modernity - Global Futures, Decolonial Options (Paperback, New)
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The Darker Side of Western Modernity - Global Futures, Decolonial Options (Paperback, New)
Series: Latin America Otherwise
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During the Renaissance, Europeans colonized time and space,
inventing the historical eras Antiquity and the Middle Ages;
mapping, appropriating, and exploiting the Americas; and
establishing the idea that European modernity was the apogee of
human history and the model for the world to emulate. Walter D.
Mignolo analyzes the colonial logic that has driven five hundred
years of Western imperialism, from colonialism through
neo-liberalism, and he describes resistance, from the sixteenth
century onward, to the projection and violent forcing of modern
European ideals onto the non-European world. Mignolo argues that in
the early twenty-first century, an irreversible polycentric world
order has taken hold. European-American modernity is no longer
taken for granted as a global model. The creation of multiple,
global futures not dominated by the West is well underway; it was
visible in the Zapatista movement's displacement of the separation
between theory and practice, and it can be seen in the election and
government of Evo Morales in Bolivia. Advocating for the
pluralisation of ways of being and knowing, Mignolo contributes to
the projects of decolonization unfolding in different forms around
the world.
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