This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de-colonization of knowledge as an epistemological restitution with political and ethical implications. Epistemic decolonization, or de-coloniality, becomes the horizon to imagine and act toward global futures in which the notion of a political enemy is replaced by intercultural communication and towards an-other rationality that puts life first and that places institutions at its service, rather than the other way around. The volume is profoundly inter- and trans-disciplinary, with authors writing from many intellectual, transdisciplinary, and institutional spaces. This book was published as a special issue of __Cultural Studies__. This Book Is The Outcome Of Of One Of The Workshops Of The Project Modernity/coloniality/decoloniality, Held At Duke-unc In May Of 2004. -- Taken From Introduction. Coloniality Of Power And De-colonial Thinking / Walter D. Mignolo -- Coloniality And Modernity-rationality / Aníbal Quijano -- Worlds And Knowledges Otherwise: The Latin American Modernity-coloniality Research Program / Arturo Escobar -- The Epistemic Decolonial Turn: Beyond The Political-economy Paradigms / Ramón Grosfoguel -- Shifting The Geopolitics Of Critical Knowledge: Decolonial Thought And Cultural Studies 'others' In The Andes / Catherine Walsh -- On The Coloniality Of Being: Contributions To The Development Of A Concept / Nelson Maldonado-torres -- Decolonization And The Question Of Subjectivity: Gender, Race, And Binary Thinking / Freya Schiwy -- The Nation: An Imagined Community? / Javier Sanjinés -- Decolonial Moves: Trans-locating African Diaspora Spaces / Agustin Lao-montes -- Unsettling Race, Coloniality, And Caste: Anzaldúa's Borderlands-la Frontera, Martínez's Parrot In The Oven, And Roy's God Of Small Things / José David Saldívar -- The Eastern Margins Of Empire: Coloniality In 19th Century Romania / Manuela Boatcă -- (in)edible Nature: New World Food And Coloniality / Zilkia Janer -- The Imperial-colonial Chronotope: Istanbul-baku-khurramabad / Madina Tlostanova -- The Missing Chapter Of Empire: Postmodern Reorganization Of Coloniality And Post-fordist Capitalism / Santiago Castro-gómez -- Delinking: The Rhetoric Of Modernity, The Logic Of Coloniality And Hte Grammar Of De-coloniality / Walter D. Mignolo -- The Coloniality Of Gender / María Lugones -- Afterword / Arturo Escobar. Edited By Walter D. Mignolo And Arturo Escobar. This Book Is The Outcome Of Of One Of The Workshops Of The Project Modernity/coloniality/decoloniality, Held At Duke-unc In May Of 2004--introd. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de-colonization of knowledge as an epistemological restitution with political and ethical implications. Epistemic decolonization, or de-coloniality, becomes the horizon to imagine and act toward global futures in which the notion of a political enemy is replaced by intercultural communication and towards an-other rationality that puts life first and that places institutions at its service, rather than the other way around. The volume is profoundly inter- and trans-disciplinary, with authors writing from many intellectual, transdisciplinary, and institutional spaces. This book was published as a special issue of Cultural Studies .
