postcolonialism

The Colonial as Silence. Conquest as Taboo: Reflections in the Present Tense

Valeria Añón y Mario Rufer, Universidad de Buenos Aires / Conicet, Argentina y Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Xochimilco, México

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” […]

Social Inequality Unthought. Exposing Blind Spots through Views from Below

Manuela Boatcă manuela.boatca@ku-eichstaett.de Katholische Universität, Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Deutschland Abstract: On the basis of arguments put forth by gender studies, dependency/world-system approaches as well as by present-day Latin American postcolonial theories, the paper pleads for a global sociology of social inequality premised on three substantive correctives of the mainstream social inequality research: First, a shift from the […]