This book is a compendium of the evolution that the thought and methodology of its author has undergone and, with it, of the concept and content of decolonial thought itself. In its different chapters, you can see the importance that the anti-imperialist movement and the thought of Afro-Caribbean authors had in the origin of postcolonial studies, and then move on to the nuances and changes that occurred in them over the years. .
The last block, "Crisis of colonial modernity and anti-systemic consciousness", focuses on what has happened in recent times, with the bankruptcy of the paradigm of Western Modernity (and, consequently, of American hegemony and the neoliberal) to make way for the different alternatives that have been forged during this time, with special attention to the Latin American experience.
Throughout its pages the reader will encounter one of the most imp...read more