Coloniality of Being & Global Coloniality

Readings for this Sunday:

in english: Maldonado-Torres, Nelson. "On the Coloniality of Being: Contributions to the Development of a Concept," Cultural Studies 21, nos. 2-3 (March/May 2007): 240-270. Available here: http://www.4s...hared.com/document/LiPIDH7s/NMT-Coloniality-Being.html

en español: Maldonado-Torres, Nelson. “Sobre la colonialidad del ser: contribuciones al desarrollo de un concepto”. En: Santiago Castro-Gómez y Ramón Grosfoguel (eds.), El giro decolonial. Reflexiones para una diversidad epistémica más allá del capitalismo global, 127-167. Bogotá: Iesco-Pensar-Siglo del Hombre Editores, 2007. http://www.ram-wan.net/restrepo/decolonial/17-maldonado-colonialidad%20del%20ser.pdf

in english: Grosfoguel, Ramón. "Transmodernity, border thinking, and global coloniality: Decolonizing political economy and postcolonial studies," Eurozine (2008): http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-07-04-grosfoguel-en.html

en español: http://www.revistatabularasa.org/numero_cuatro/grosfoguel.pdf