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Geopolitics of sensing and knowing: on (de)coloniality, border thinking and epistemic disobedience
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This essay offers an introduction to the ‘decolonial option’. The author begins by setting his project apart from its European contemporaries such as biopolitics and by tracing the historical origins of his project to the Bandung Conference of 1955 that asserted decolonization as the ‘third way’, beyond Soviet communism and liberal capitalism. Decoloniality needs to emphasize itself once again as a ‘third way’. This time it has to break the tandem formed by ‘rewesternization’ (championed by Obama's administration and the EU) and ‘dewesternization’ (represented by so-called emergent countries). The decolonial option embraces epistemic disobedience and border thinking in order to question the behaviour of world powers. Ultimately what is at stake is advancing what the author calls global political society.
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“To promote epistemic disobedience, we must recognize that our dominant Eurocentric educational system is also a local system, with particular cultures and history that re fl ect settler colonialism, and for that reason we must de-link from the normalization of settler colonialism within the CMP (Mignolo, 2011, p. 161).”
From Creating third spaces in K-12 socio-environmental education through indigenous languages: a case study (2024) · cites this paper as Mignolo, 2011
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“The inclusion of the Abenaki language, by a teacher who was in the process of de-centering from the CMP, and the Land education framework as de-coloniality, created a pedagogical third space, during which the epistemological de-centering could occur.”
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- Authors
- Mignolo, W. D.
- Corresponding author
- Mignolo, Walter D
- ORCID
- Mignolo, Walter D
- Venue
- Postcolonial Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2011-09
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 273-283
- ISSN
- 1368-8790 (ISSN-L)
- 1466-1888
- OpenAlex
- W2159850448
- Cited by
- 619
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 8.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Postcolonial Studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Latin American Cultural Politics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › African cultural and philosophical studies
- Keywords
- decoloniality, geopolitics, border thinking, epistemic disobedience, Bandung Conference, decolonization, third way, biopolitics, global power
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