Geopolitics of sensing and knowing: on (de)coloniality, border thinking and epistemic disobedience
2011; Routledge; Volume: 14; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/13688790.2011.613105
ISSN1466-1888
Autores Tópico(s)Political Theology and Sovereignty
ResumoThis 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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