decolonial option

Coloniality, Colonialism, and Colonial Studies: Towards a Subalternist-Inflected Comparative Approach

https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n29.05 Gustavo Verdesio University of Michigan, USAverdesio@umich.edu Abstract: Post-colonial theory and the decolonial option have been getting more and more followers throughout Latin America in the last few years. In both cases, the idea of the colonial, coloniality, and colonialism seems to adopt several ways. Despite that protean fluctuation of utterances, with “colony” as a […]

The decolonial option: detachment and opening – a manifest and a case study

Walter D. Mignolo walter.mignolo@duke.edu Duke University, Durham, USA Abstract: The decolonial option in politics and in epistemology was the direct consequence of the imperial/colonial invasion, first in Anahuac and Tawantinsuyu, and since the middle of the XVIII century in different spaces of the Islamic world (i.e. the British colonization of Hindu-Muslim India, the French colonization […]