INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. 1 PARADOXES OF MODERNITY IN LATIN AMERICA 32
5. 2 THE AESTHETIC OF UTOPIA 64
6. 3 COLONIALITY AND MODERNITY/RATIONALITY 73
7. 4 QUESTIONING “RACE” 85
8. 5 COLONIALITY OF POWER AND SOCIAL CLASSIFICATION 95
9. 6 THE RETURN OF THE FUTURE AND QUESTIONS ABOUT KNOWLEDGE 132
10. 7 COLONIALITY OF POWER, GLOBALIZATION, AND DEMOCRACY 146
11. 8 THE NEW ANTICAPITALIST IMAGINARY 188
12. 9 DON QUIXOTE AND THE WINDMILLS IN LATIN AMERICA 204
13. 10 THE “INDIGENOUS MOVEMENT” AND UNRESOLVED QUESTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA 229
14. 11 COLONIALITY OF POWER, EUROCENTRISM, AND LATIN AMERICA 256
15. 12 cCOLONIALITY OF POWER AND DE/COLONIALITY OF POWER 303
16. 13 THIRTY YEARS LATER: ANOTHER REUNION 317
17. 14 THE CRISIS OF THE COLONIAL/MODERN/ EUROCENTERED HORIZON OF MEANING 331
18. 15 LATIN AMERICA 347
19. 16 COLONIALITY OF POWER AND SUBJECTIVITY IN LATIN AMERICA 361
20. 17 “BIEN VIVIR” 379
21. 18 LABOR 392
22. 19 NOTES ON THE DECOLONIALITY OF POWER 411
23. 20 MODERNITY, CAPITAL, AND LATIN AMERICA WERE BORN THE SAME DAY 418
24. BIBLIOGRAPHY 443
25. INDEX 457