Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflections from Eurasia and the Americas (Transoceanic Series) - Softcover

Tlostanova, Madina V.; Mignolo, Walter D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814258751 ISBN 13: 9780814258750

Publisher: Ohio State University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflections from Eurasia and the Americas is a complex, multisided rethinking of the epistemic matrix of Western modernity and coloniality from the position of border epistemology. Colonial and imperial differences are the two key concepts to understanding how the logic of coloniality creates ontological and epistemic exteriorities. Being at once an enactment of decolonial thinking and an attempt to define its main grounds, mechanisms, and concepts, the book shifts the politics of knowledge from “studying the other” (culture, society, economy, politics) toward “the thinking other” (the authors).

Addressing areas as diverse as the philosophy of higher education, gender, citizenship, human rights, and indigenous agency, and providing fascinating and little-known examples of decolonial thinking, education, and art, Madina V. Tlostanova and Walter D. Mignolo deconstruct the modern architecture of knowledge—its production and distribution as manifested in the corporate university. In addition, the authors dwell on and define the echoing global decolonial sensibilities as expressed in the Americas and in peripheral Eurasia. The book is an important addition to the emerging transoceanic inquiries that introduce decolonial thought and non-Western border epistemologies not only to update or transform disciplines but also to act and think decolonially in the global futures to come.

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About the Author

Madina V. Tlostanova is professor in the Department of History of Philosophy at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814258751
• ISBN 13: 9780814258750
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292