...T H E S O C I A L B O D Y O F L OV E Crafting Decolonial Methodologies 1 F I G U R E 1 . 1 Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Flowers Fall along the Road (1997 2001). T H E A R T S A R E A N impor tant part of constructing the social imaginary the space from which we imagine, and then become; a space we...

...6 Cosmopolitanism and the Decolonial Option I The Scenario A dear friend and colleague of mine who is sympathetic to decoloniality was not convinced about it being an option. In our conversation, he brought up counterarguments, one of which was that if we follow the logic of the argu- ment...

...THE part iii GEOPOLITICS OF THE MODERN/ COLONIAL WORLD ORDER This page intentionally left blank 8 Decolonial Reflections on Hemispheric Partitions About twenty years ago I explored the meaning of the Western Hemis­ phere within the colonial horizon of modernity.1 Now roughly twenty years...

..., modernity must be culturally located and evaluated. In speaking of alternative modernities, Taylor s assessment leaves out attention to submerged cultural practices and identities that attend the Devin Singh 1 Decolonial Options for a Fragile Secular Decolonial Options 33 birth of the modern. Neglecting...