SEMINAR SYLLABUS AND THEMES 6/4/15

REFERENCES FOR CONSULTATION

1) Modernity and Decoloniality. Oxford Bibliogrpahy Online, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766581/obo-9780199766581-0017.xml2) Globalization and the Decolonial Option, Walter Mignolo and Arturo Escobar, editors. Routledge, 20103) Walter D. Mignolo, The Darker Side of Western Modernity. Global Futures, Decolonial Options.4) Walter D Mignolo, The prospect of harmony and a decolonial view of the world, an interview of Weihua He with Walter Mignolo, http://wpfdc.org/blog/politics/19104-the-prospect-of-harmony-and-the-decolonial-view-of-the-world 5) Gandhi, Hind Swaraj

SYLLABUS AND WORKING MATERIALTheme 1: On modernity, coloniality and the decolonial option: Conceptual Framework (2 days)Readings:[1] Anibal Quijano, Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality, in Globalization and the Decolonial Option, PDF

[2] Arturo Escobar, Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise: The Latin American Modernity/Coloniality Research Program, in Globalizaiton and the Decolonial Option, PDF

[3] Walter Mignolo, Delinking: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality and the Grammar of Decoloniality, in Globalization and the Decolonial Option, PDF

[4] Anibal Quijano, Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism and Social Classification, in Coloniality at Large: The Postcolonial debate in Latin America. Duke UP, 2011. PDF

Theme 2: Coloniality of power historical foundation (2 days)Readings:[1] --Walter Mignolo, Coloniality: The Darker Side of Western Modernity, MACBA, Barcelona PDF

[2] Carl Schmitt, The Nomos of the Earth, 1950, selections, PDF

[3] Michel Rolph-Trouillot: North Atlantic Universal Fictions: 1492-1945, PDF

[4] Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery, 1944, selections. PDF

[5] Zigmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, selections. PDF

Theme 3: Geopolitics of knowing, sensing and believing (I): decolonizing knowledge and being (gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality) (2 days)Reading:[1] L. Elena Delgado and Rolando J. Romero, Local Histories and Global Designs: An Interview with Walter Mignolo, link http://www.unc.edu/~aescobar/wan/walter.pdf

[2] Red Humanities Digitals, blog, link:http://dayofdh2014.matrix.msu.edu/redhd/2014/04/09/geopolitics-of-knowledge-and-digital-humanities/

[3] Maria Lugones, The coloniality of gender, PDF

[4] Nelson Maldonado-Torres, The coloniality of being: history of a concept, Globalization and the Decolonial Option, link: http://www.decolonialtranslation.com/english/maldonado-on-the-coloniality-of-being.pdf

[5] Madina Tlostanova: Post Soviet Imaginary and Global Coloniality: A Gendered Perspective, 2013, link: http://www.kronotop.org/folders/post-soviet-imaginary-and-global-coloniality-a-gendered-perspective-madina-tlostanova/

Theme 4: Decolonizing/dewesternizing aesthetic, liberating aesthesis (1 day)Reading:[1] Decolonial aesthetics/aesthesis: colonial wounds, decolonial healing, special issue of Social Text Periscope, co edited by Rolando Vazquez and Walter Mignolo, on line.Walter Mignolo, Re-emerging, decentering and delinking, on Sharjah Biennial 11, 2012, link: http://socialtextjournal.org/periscope_article/decolonial-aesthesis-colonial-woundsdecolonial-healings/

[2] Walter Mignolo, Re-emerging, decentering and delinking, on Sharjah Biennial 11, 2012, link : http://www.ibraaz.org/essays/59

[3] Walter Mignolo, Enacting the archives, descentering the muses (on Doha Museum of Islamic Art and Singapore Museum of Asian Civilizations), 2013, link: http://www.ibraaz.org/essays/77

Theme 5: Decolonizing science and religion, liberating spirituality (1 day)Reading:

[1] Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, to be purchased

[2] Arundhati Roy, Capitalism, a ghost story, to be purchased

[3] Leanne Simpson, Dancing on our Turtles Back, selection, to be purchased

[4] Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, Hinduism: where science and spirituality intersect, opinion article. link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gadadhara-pandit-dasa/hinduism-science-spirituality-intersect_b_967628.html

[5] Carl Sagan On God and gods, link: http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=carl+sagan+on+god+and+gods&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=138D31834D6184D08A72138D31834D6184D08A72

[6] Walter Mignolo, Prophets facing sidewise: geopolitics of knowledge and the colonial difference. On Mira Nandas book Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India. link: http://people.duke.edu/~wmignolo/publications/prophets%20facing%20sidewise.pdf

Theme 6: Decolonizing political theory and international law to liberate governance, decolonizing capitalism to liberate the economy (2 days)Reading:

[1] Re-reading Carl Schmitt and Eric Williams, from Theme 2

[2] Vandana Shiva, The Monocultures of the Mind. Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology, 1993 to be purchased

[3] Ashis Nady, Regimes of Narcissism, Regimes of Despair, 2013 (selections) PDF

[4] Edgardo Lander, The discourse of civil society and decolonization struggles in Latin America, 2012, 22 pages, link: http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/download/the_discourse_of_civil_society_and_current_decolonization_struggles_in_latin_america.pdf

[6] Edgardo Lander, The Green Economy. The World in Sheeps Clothing, 2011, 10 pages, link: http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/download/green-economy.pdf