The Critique of Coloniality: Eight Essays

Rita Segato (University of Brasilia, Brazil)

The Critique of Coloniality: Eight Essays
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
31 March 2022
Pages
230
ISBN
9780367759827

The Critique of Coloniality: Eight Essays

Rita Segato (University of Brasilia, Brazil)

This translation of Rita Segato’s seminal book La critica de la colonialidad en ocho ensayos offers an anthropological and critical perspective on the coloniality of power as theorized by the Peruvian thinker Anibal Quijano.

Segato begins with an overview of Quijano’s conceptual framework, emphasizing the power and richness of his theory and its relevance to a range of fields. Each of the seven subsequent chapters presents a scenario in which a persistent colonial structure or form of subjectivity can be identified. These essays address urgent issues of gender, sexuality, race and racism, and indigenous forms of life. They set the decolonial perspective to work, and are connected by two central preoccupations: the critical analysis of coloniality and the effort to reimagine anthropology as responsive anthropology, a practice at once answerable and useful to the communities previously regarded as the objects of ethnographic thought.

The Critique of the Coloniality makes important and original contributions to our understanding of colonial and decolonial processes, drawing on the author’s experience of feminist and antiracist movements and struggles for indigenous and human rights. This book will appeal to students and scholars working in anthropology, Latin American studies, political theory, feminist and gender studies, indigenous studies, and anticolonial, post-colonial, and decolonial thought.

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