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History and Politics

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The country on the verge of a nervous breakdown (2)

The country on the verge of a nervous breakdown …

Modernity and Coloniality: Reflections on Mignolo’s Text

In a lecture at Stanford University, Walter Mignolo (Duke University) provided an outline of the five domains of human experience that articulate what he calls the logic of coloniality:
1. Control of labor
2. Control of authority
3. Control of gender/sexuality
4. Control of nature
5. Control of knowledge
His outline of the logic of coloniality is, in a nutshell, a […]

The Thomasites: A Ship of Tools

Film Review: “Memories of a Forgotten War”

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