Local histories/global designs: coloniality, subaltern knowledges, and border thinking. Walter D. Mignolo

Introduction :-
Part 1. In search of an other logic --
1. Border thinking and the colonial difference --
Part 2. I am where i thing : The geopolitics of Knowledge and colonial epistemic differences
2. Post-Occidental reason : The Crisis of Occidental and the emergencye of broder thinking --
3. Human understanding and local literests : Occidentalism and the Letin American argument--
4.Are subaltern studies postmodern or postcolonial the politics and sensibilities of geohistorical locations--
Part 3. subalternity and the colonial difference : Languages, literatures, --
5. An other Tongue : linguistics Maps , Literary Geographies, Cultural Landscape --
6. Bilanguaging lover : Thinking in between Language --
7. Globalization mundializacion : Civilizing Processes and the relocation of language and knowledges --

'Local Histories/Global Designs' is an extended argument about the '"coloniality' of power. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies.

Explores the crucial notion of "colonial difference" in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which author calls "border thinking". This title expands the horizons of debates under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling in the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America.