critical thinking

The Critical Workshop. A proposal for Interactive Work

Martha Cecilia Andrade Calderón y Clarena Muñoz Dagua, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca

Decolonizing Political-Economy and Post-Colonial Studies: Transmodernity, Border Thinking, and Global Coloniality

Ramón Grosfoguel grosfogu@berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley (USA) Abstract : This article discusses the epistemic implications of the de-colonial turn of the decolonization of the “global capitalism” concept, as it has been used in the paradigms of political economy and cultural studies. Other terms that are discussed include “colonization of power”, “border epistemologies” and “transmodernity” […]

Rethinking the Geopolitics of Knowledge: A Challenge to Imperial Visions

David Slater d.slater@lboro.ac.uk Loughborough University, UK Abstract: The global objective of these exploratory notes is to open the debate about certain important aspects of the intersections between power, knowledge and geopolitics, and doing so in the context of the resurgence of imperial visions and the urgent need for a decolonialization of the imagination. The analytical terrain […]