Southern thought and other essays on the Mediterranean /

Ranging between the fields of sociology, political science philosophy, cultural anthropology & literature, this volume offers a critique of normative models of modernisation derived from Eurocentric & North Atlantic paradigms, claiming that autonomous paths to modernity exist in the Mediterr...

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Main Author: Cassano, Franco, 1943-
Other Authors: Bouchard, Norma, 1960-, Ferme, Valerio, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, ©2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Freeing subjugated knowledge / Ada María Isasi-Díaz and Eduardo Mendieta
  • Knowing reality. Decolonizing Western epistemology : building decolonial epistemologies / Walter Mignolo
  • Mujerista discourse : a platform for Latinas' subjugated knowledge / Ada María Isasi-Díaz
  • Methodological notes toward a decolonial feminism / María Lugones
  • An(other) invitation to epistemological humility : notes toward a self-critical approach to counter-knowledges / Otto Maduro
  • Latina/o locus historicus. Anti-Latino racism / Linda Martín Alcoff
  • The act of remembering : the reconstruction of U.S. Latina/o identities by U.S. Latina/o Muslims / Hjamil A. Martínez-Vázquez
  • If it is not Catholic, is it popular Catholicism? : evil eye, espiritismo, and Santería : Latina/o religion within Latina/o theology / Michelle A. González
  • "Racism is not intellectual" : interracial friendship, multicultural literature, and decolonizing epistemologies / Paula M.L. Moya
  • Mapping Latina/o futures. Epistemology, ethics, and the time/space of decolonization : perspectives from the Caribbean and the Latina/o Americas / Nelson Maldonado-Torres
  • Thinking bodies : the spirit of a Latina incarnational imagination / Mayra Rivera Rivera
  • Decolonizing religion : pragmatism and Latina/o religious experience / Christopher Tirres
  • The ethics of (not) knowing : take care of ethics and knowledge will come of its own accord / Eduardo Mendieta.
  • pt. 1. Mediterranean
  • pt. 2. Homo currens
  • pt. 3. The friction of thought
  • pt. 4. Other essays on the Mediterranean.