The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options
By Walter D. Mignolo. 2011
Subfields: Philosophy, Social Sciences & Humanities
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Citations in the corpus
- Re-imagining Algorithmic Fairness in India and Beyond (2021, background): “A decolonial perspective (borrowed from Latin American and African scholars like [66, 70, 72, 134, 210]) helps us confront inequalities from colonisation in India, providing new openings for knowledge and justice in AI fairness research.”
- Placing Transdisciplinarity in Context: A Review of Approaches to Connect Scholars, Society and Action (2019, background): “Decolonial theory could assist TDA researchers to understand how colonial history shapes modern structures of power [147] and how Western European ways of knowing, such as modern science, are not universal or higher ways of knowing [148].”
- Translanguaging, Coloniality, and English Classrooms: An Exploration of Two Bicoastal Urban Classrooms (2017, background): “As equity-minded scholars dedicated to the “epistemic democratization” (Mignolo, 2011, p. 169) of our nation’s classrooms, we draw on Mignolo’s (2000) notion of “border thinking” to explore how colonial histories continue to inform restrictive educational contexts, especially as they pertain to the…”
- Decolonizing Content Moderation: Does Uniform Global Community Standard Resemble Utopian Equality or Western Power Hegemony? (2023, background): “To address such colonial aggression, many HCI and critical computing scholars have advocated for shifting the center of power and knowledge to the peripheries [22] and embracing cultural plu-ralism into design [47, 93, 127, 152].”
- The Psychology of Neoliberalism and the Neoliberalism of Psychology (2019, background): “Perspectives of decolonial theory (e.g., Grosfoguel, 2002; Mignolo, 2011), rooted in epistemic standpoints of the Global South, emphasize that the freedom from constraint associated with the neoliberal individualist pursuit of growth is not politically innocent.”