Spirit out of bounds returns to the East: The closing of the social sciences and the opening of independent thoughts

Current Sociology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 584-602

  Mignolo, Walter D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Border epistemology; Decolonialidad y desoccidentalizaci n del conocimiento; decoloniality and dewesternization of knowledge; D colonialit et d soccidentalisation des connaissances; epistemolog a fronteriza; Eurocentrism; Eurocentrisme; Eurocentrismo; pist mologie des fronti res

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905669798     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: 14617064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392114524513     Document Type: Article

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