Coloniality of Power

Bibliographic Data

ID11782887
AuthorsE Restrepo (0000-0002-5634-465X, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages1-6
Publication date2018-09-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeOTHER
VenueThe International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2118
OpenAlexW3082029954
ISBN9781118924396
LanguageEN
Citations received24
References cited12

Coloniality of power, a category elaborated by the Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano, refers to the pattern of global power that emerges with the modern world system, which is associated with racial classification and has permitted the control and exploitation of the labor force, wealth, and territories throughout the planet for the sake of the emergence and consolidation of capitalism. This category has been nodal for a group of authors, mostly from Latin America, to develop a set of categories and conceptualizations that radically problematize the most common assumptions about modernity. They argue that coloniality is the constitutive dark side of modernity. This entry examines this group's elaboration of the category of coloniality of power, particularly those that refer to the decentering of modernity when colonial difference is taken into account

Capitalism · Colonialism · Consolidation (business · Economics · Epistemology · Latin Americans · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies · Gender Studies · Latin American Cultural Politics · Law · Philosophy