Local histories/global designs coloniality, subaltern knowledges, and border thinking

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-365) and index.

Introduction: On gnosis and the imaginary of the modern/colonial world system -- Bording thinking and the colonial difference -- Post-occidental reason: the crisis of occidentalism and the emergenc(y)e of border thinking -- Human understanding and local interests: occidentalism and the (Latin) American argument -- Are subaltern studies postmodern or postcolonial? The politics and sensibilities of geohistorical locations -- "An other tonge": Linguistic maps, literary geographies, cultural landscapes -- Bilanguaging love: thinking in between languages -- Globalization/mundialización: civilizing processes and the relocation of languages and knowledges -- Afterword: An other tongue, an other thinking, an other logic.