Local Histories/Global Designsis an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, ...such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of "colonial difference" in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which he calls "border thinking." Further, he expands the horizons of those debates already under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling in the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America, the Caribbean, and Latino/as in the United States. His concept of "border gnosis," or sensing and knowing by dwelling in imperial/colonial borderlands, counters the tendency of occidentalist perspectives to manage, and thus limit, understanding.
In a new preface that discussesLocal Histories/Global Designsas a dialogue with Hegel's Philosophy of History, Mignolo connects his argument with the unfolding of history in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Review of:
Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia
, Carlos Garrido Castellano and Bruno Leitão (eds) (2022)
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 304 pp.,
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El presente artículo tiene el propósito de analizar el devenir del enfoque intercultural en el sistema educativo peruano, en especial en la formación universitaria. Se aborda la problemática en tres ...prácticas: la enseñanza de idiomas, las condiciones de admisión y la labor de comunicación científica. En estas primeras dos décadas del siglo XXI se han formalizado cuatro universidades interculturales, las mismas que fueron creadas siguiendo la lógica moderno/colonial de integrar a la educación superior universitaria y por ende al modelo laboral y económico a las poblaciones originarias que habitan el suelo peruano. Desde que se promulgó la Ley Universitaria 30220, el 2014, las universidades han dado cabida a la perspectiva intercultural en sus modelos y prácticas académicas. Observamos que de un lado existe el interés por aprender a comunicarse con las poblaciones nativas; y del otro, que este aprendizaje se ve limitado cuando se trata de incorporar los saberes de los pueblos originarios en los perfiles profesionales y de incluir sus lenguas en el discurso académico.
The New World Debate offers a privileged site to reconstruct and study Europe's self-image in the 18th century. Taking on Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, Rameau's Les Indes Galantes, Voltaire's Alzire ...et les Americains, and De Pauw's Recherches philosophiques sur les Américains, this paper traces the process through which Europe elaborated a Eurocentric view of the world organization through a paternalistic, usually benevolent but always contemptuous, relation to America that would come to define Europe's colonial expansion of the 19th century and make colonialism an essential, yet uncomfortable, dimension of Europe's modern identity.
Language maps, which reflect linguistic pluralism, multilingualism and the spread of languages across countries and empires were part of an evolving human history. Historically, language came under ...the impact of geography, political conflicts and colonization. Due to these factors, languages penetrate borders or ended up in isolation or even in extinction. In this context, the paper investigates selected language maps of many African, Asian, European and South American countries in order to underline the connections between language, politics, immigration, war and other related elements. The paper argues that current language maps in some geographical regions are similar to the political maps of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries because colonial languages continued to exist in these countries even after the departure of the colonizers. Further, the paper explores the spread of a variety of languages and their penetration in some countries, which constituted a great part of the European Union, in order to examine the impact of geo-politics on the changing status of language maps in Europe. Keywords: language maps, geography, multilingualism, colonization, hybridity, environment, culture Jezikovni zemljevidi, ki odrazajo jezikovni pluralizem, vecjezicnost in razsiritev jezikov po dezelah in imperijih so bili del cloveske zgodovine. Zgodovinsko gledano je jezik vselej prisel pod vpliv geografije, politicnih konfliktov ter kolonizacije. Kljucne besede: jezikovni zemljevidi, geografija, vecjezicnost, kolonizacija, hibridnost, okolje, kulura
