WHOEVER ARE HISTORIES FOR? PLURALIZATION, BORDER THINKING, AND POTENTIAL HISTORIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 100-117
Author(s):  
FIONA JENKINS
Keyword(s):  
Border Thinking

Local Histories/Global Designs

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter D. Mignolo
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Central America ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
South Central ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Border Thinking ◽  
East West

This book is an extended argument about the “coloniality” of power. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, this book points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. It explores the crucial notion of “colonial difference” in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which the book calls “border thinking.” Further, the book expands the horizons of those debates already under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling on the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America, the Caribbean, and Latino/as in the United States. The book's concept of “border gnosis,” or sensing and knowing by dwelling in imperial/colonial borderlands, counters the tendency of occidentalist perspectives to manage, and thus limit, understanding. A new preface discusses this book as a dialogue with Hegel's Philosophy of History.

Border Thinking and the Colonial Difference

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter D. Mignolo
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
World System ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Colonial Histories ◽  
Epistemological Principle ◽  
Border Thinking

This chapter explores theoretical responses to and departures from the modern world system. The first part looks into Anibal Quijano's concept of “coloniality of power” and Enrique Dussel's “transmodernity” as responses to global designs from colonial histories and legacies in Latin America. The second part is devoted to Abdelkhebir Khatibi's “double critique” and “une pensée autre” (an other thinking) as a response from colonial histories and legacies in Maghreb. The chapter also studies Edouard Glissant's notion of “Créolization,” proposed to account for the colonial experience of the Caribbean in the horizon of modernity and as a new epistemological principle. These perspectives, from Spanish America, Maghreb, and the Caribbean, contribute today to rethinking, critically, the limits of the modern world system—the need to conceive it as a modern/colonial world system and to tell stories not only from inside the “modern” world but from its borders.

Decolonising gender in South Asia: a border thinking perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 261-270
Author(s):  
Nazia Hussein ◽  
Saba Hussain
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Border Thinking

scholarly journals Introduction: Borders in Translation and Intercultural Communication

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Evans ◽  
Helen Ringrow
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Border Thinking

The introduction to this special issue discusses the notion of border and its position in current scholarship in translation studies and intercultural communication. It then analyses ways in which borders can be useful for thinking, focusing particularly on Walter Mignolo’s notion of “border thinking”. It reviews how borders are viewed in both translation studies and intercultural communication and offers some possible directions for future research before introducing the papers in this special issue.

scholarly journals A Critical Review of Environmental Conservation in Zimbabwe

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Munyaradzi Mawere
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
Environmental Anthropology ◽  
Stink Bugs ◽  
Indigenous Epistemologies ◽  
Considerable Success ◽  
Indigenous Conservation ◽  
Communal Area ◽  
Border Thinking

The discourse on “environmental conservation” is highly dynamic and has generated controversies of epic proportions in conservation sciences and environmental anthropology. Given the nebulous nature of conservation, coupled with the varying interpretations evoked by the deployment of the concept across different disciplines, a more robust understanding of the notion calls into question its practical manifestations and application in particular situated contexts – particularly within the conservation sciences and environmental anthropology. In Zimbabwe, conservation by the state has tended to favour and privilege Western scientific models at the expense of the “indigenous” conservation practices of local people, as informed by their indigenous epistemologies. This paper thus represents an attempt to rethink conservation in Zimbabwe, adopting the Norumedzo communal area in south-eastern Zimbabwe as its case study. The choice of Norumedzo is based on the fact that this is one area where the highly esteemed and delicious harurwa (edible stink bugs, Encosternum delegorguei) are found. As a result of these insects being valued as “actors” and the appreciation shown to both Western and indigenous epistemologies, conservation in the area has enjoyed considerable success. To this end, this paper lends support to the arguments of Walter Mignolo and Ramon Grosfoguel in their advocacy for critical border thinking in issues of knowledge regarding environmental conservation.

Play of Mirrors in the Border. Najat El Hachmi’s Subjectivity Formation in Jo també sóc catalana

Hawwa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 289-309
Author(s):  
Miquel Pomar-Amer
Keyword(s):  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Textual Representation ◽  
Border Thinking

This contribution proposes a discussion of Najat El Hachmi’s autobiographical accountJo també sóc catalana(2004) as an enunciatory space from which she explores and constitutes her subjectivity. Considering her interaction with different interpellations from the dominant discourse, the notion of liminality will be tackled under what she calls ‘pensament de frontera’ (border thinking). Thus, the border works both as a lens to look at the textual representation and as a reification of the enunciatory position she creates. I propose to interpret this position as a play of mirrors which stresses similarity over difference, blurring the opposition ‘us’ versus ‘them’. Nonetheless, this action is not riskfree and the perils of an abyss of uncertainty and failed expectations threaten this positivist stance. Thus, this contribution aims to reflect on the negotiations that hegemonic discourses demand from El Hachmi and how she represents them in her first work.

scholarly journals Beyond Western-Centric and Eurocentric Development: A Case for Decolonizing Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebeka Richard Plaatjie
Keyword(s):  
Core Values ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
African Development ◽  
The Core ◽  
African People ◽  
The Poor ◽  
People First ◽  
Border Thinking

This article focuses on the analysis of the development discourse from the viewpoint of critical decolonial perspective informed by the work of scholars such as Walter Mignolo that privileges ‘border thinking’ and is predicated on the notions of ‘I think from where I stand’. Its proposition is that there is a need for decolonization and ‘Africanization’ of the development discourse to reflect the core needs of the African peoples, particularly the poor. The paper starts off with a critique of mainstream development discourse and also proceeds to make a case for a new African development discourse that takes into account African historical experiences and indigenous African thought. This new African development discourse will put the African people first and be constructed from their core values, needs and demands.

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