Global Modernization, ‘Coloniality’ and a Critical Sociology for Contemporary Latin America  

Oleh:

Domingues, José Maurício

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory, Culture & Society vol. 26 no. 1 (Jan. 2009), page 112-133.
Topik: complexity ¦ critical theory ¦ decolonization ¦ Mignolo ¦ third phase of modernity
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This article analyses recent social, cultural and political developments in Latin America, with special reference to the ‘modernity/coloniality’ project, as well as offering an alternative sociological interpretation of the contemporary subcontinent. It analyses in particular Walter Mignolo’s work as the main expression of that ‘post/decolonial’ project, a general interpretive effort that reflects actual social changes but offers misguided theoretical and political perspectives. The article then proposes a discussion of modernity as a global civilization which is now unfolding its third phase, characterized by greater complexity and pluralism. In addition it argues that modernity should be seen as a two-pronged phenomenon, featuring not only domination but also emancipation. Against the reification of modernity, the article suggests that we see it as woven by multiple and contingent modernizing moves.

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