The Darker Side Of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options

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During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of Western modernity, a complex matrix of power that has been created and controlled by Western men and institutions from the Renaissance, when it was driven by Christian theology, through the late twentieth century and the dictates of neoliberalism. This cycle of coloniality is coming to an end. Two main forces are challenging Western leadership in the early twenty-first century. One of these; dewesternization; is an irreversible shift to the East in struggles over knowledge, economics, and politics. The second force is; decoloniality; Mignolo explains that decoloniality requires delinking from the colonial matrix of power underlying Western modernity to imagine and build global futures in which human beings and the natural world are no longer exploited in the relentless quest for wealth accumulation. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 2 Title - series......Page 3 Title - complete......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 About the Series......Page 10 Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction Coloniality, The Darker Side of Western Modernity......Page 42 Part One......Page 66 Chapter One: The Roads to the Future, Rewesternization, Dewesternization, and Decoloniality......Page 68 Part Two......Page 116 Chapter Two: I Am Where I Do, Remapping the Order of Knowing......Page 118 Chapter Three: It Is “Our” Modernity, Delinking, Independent Thought, and Decolonial Freedom......Page 159 Part Three......Page 188 Chapter Four: (De)Coloniality at Large, Time and the Colonial Difference......Page 190 Chapter Five: The Darker Side of the Enlightenment, A Decolonial Reading of Kant’s Geography......Page 222 Part Four......Page 252 Chapter Six: The Zapatistas’ Theoretical Revolution, Its Historical, Ethical, and Political Consequences......Page 254 Chapter Seven: Cosmopolitan Localisms, Overcoming Colonial and Imperial Differences......Page 293 Afterword: “ Freedom to Choose” and the Decolonial Option, Notes Toward Communal Futures......Page 336 Notes......Page 378 Bibliography......Page 406 Index......Page 430