Walter Mignolo: Epistemic disobedience. Rhetoric of modernity, logic of coloniality and decolonial grammar (Buenos Aires 2010)

July 27th, 2011|

This book summarizes the main aspects of the "Research Project on Modernity/ Coloniality" and the central theorical proposals of the famous Argentine decolonization theorist, Walter Mignolo. The main thrust of this work is explained thus: “if knowledge is an instrument of imperial colonization, one of the urgent tasks ahead is the decolonization of knowledge.”