Critical Theory of Coloniality

This book reveals how the critique of the domination of capitalism inaugurated by the Frankfurt School becomes pluriversal, motivating the historical Critical Theory of Coloniality (CTC) dialogue between the Global South and the Global North.

Autorentext

Paulo Henrique Martins is a Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne. He was former president of the Latin American Sociological Association (ALAS); and Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CNPq) in Brazil.

Inhalt

Introduction: The emergence of a Critical Theory of Coloniality

Part I: Postcolonial Epistemologies

1. Colonial Capitalism and Theoretical Criticism: Intersections between the Global South and the Global North

2. Critical Theory of Coloniality and Internal Colonialism

3. Narratives of the Crisis: Between neoliberal recoloniality and the versions in dispute

Part II: Power and Knowledge in Peripheral Societies

4. Sociological Critique of Oligarchic Power

5. Impasses of development, sociological knowledge and uncertainties of peripheral societies

Part III: Democratic Utopias

6. Thinking about the convivialist heterotopia: Territory, love and the common good

7. Bien Vivir and Postcolonial Democracy: The Case of Indigenous Communities in Andean America

Conclusion

Critical Theory of Coloniality: Towards a plural, decolonised, cosmopolitan and border critical theory