modernity/coloniality

De-colonizing Knowledge and Practice: Dialogic Encounter Between the Latin American Modernity/ Coloniality/Decoloniality Research Program and Actor Network Theory

Elena Yehia yehia@email.unc.edu University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA) Abstract: This paper seeks to establish a conversation between two novel frameworks for the critical analysis of modernity: actor-network theory, and the Latin American Modernity/ Coloniality/ Decoloniality perspective. In addition, this paper examines the remaining problems within both frameworks from the perspective of a decolonial […]

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 […]