The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options

About the Series ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Coloniality: The Darker Side of Western Modernity 1 Part One 1. The Roads to the Future: Rewesternization, Dewesternization, and Decoloniality 27 Part Two 2. I Am Where I Do: Remapping the Order of Knowing 77 3. It Is "Our" Modernity: Delinking, Independent Thought, and Decolonial Freedom 118 Part Three 4. (De)Coloniality at Large: Time and the Colonial Difference 149 5. The Darker Side of Enlightenment: A Decolonial Reading of Kant's Geography 181 Part Four 6. The Zapatistas' Theoretical Revolution: Its Historical, Ethical, and Political Consequences 213 7. Cosmopolitan Localisms: Overcoming Colonial and Imperial Differences 252 Afterword. "Freedom to Choose" and the Decolonial Option: Notes toward Communal Futures 295 Notes 337 Bibliography 365 Index 389