N Maldonado-Torres
Biographic Data
| ID | 42184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Maldonado-Torres |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Maldonado-Torres |
| SIGNATURE | MALDONADO-TORRES N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7738-7029 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1263 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
“‘To Chew Over Hitler’s Vomit’
This essay explores three principles of geo-, theo-, and socio-political formation at work in the constitution of the modern/colonial world. The most basic and generalized principle is the Coloniality Principle, which leads to the naturalization of war, torture, environmental devastation, and genocide. The other two principles emerged in “frontiers” of the “western civilization continuum,” namely, the U.S. and the state of Israel. Those are the U…
Apresentação do Dossiê “Decolonialidade e antirracismo na (re)escrita da História no tempo presente”
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Gaza
Nuraan DavidsStellenbosch UniversityI don’t think we need to wait for history to tell us what we already know about Gaza. No amount of legal debates on the plausibility of its genocide status, can
(De)colonization/Decolonizing Phenomenology
This chapter explores the relevance of phenomenology for the understanding of a combative conception of decolonization, as opposed to mainstream positivistic and metaphorical interpretations of the concept. At the same time, combative decoloniality demands the decolonization of phenomenology. The works of the Afro-Caribbean thinkers Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire provide indispensable tools for the generation of a decolonizing form of phenomenolog…
Colonial Sustainability
The concept of “sustainable development” fuelling today’s sustainability industry may be traced back to the turn of the 14th century. The Holy Roman Empire’s imperialistic expansions into Africa and the Canary Islands eventually morphed into a burgeoning capitalist European colonial project, which then sought to undo the very environmental harms it had wrought through colonial extraction from further colonial domination and social control. Post-W…
O que é a crítica decolonial
Universidade de Connecticut
Decolonial Pedagogy Against the Coloniality of Justice
This article explores the darker side of appeals to justice and social justice within liberal settings, particularly the US academy, where these terms are frequently mobilized to counter decolonial knowledge formations and aspirations. The authors draw from Frantz Fanon's critique of justice in colonial settings to demonstrate ways in which the coloniality of justice appears in the context of debates regarding the design and implementation of an …
El giro decolonial
Fanon’s Decolonial Transcendence of Psychoanalysis
Coloniality continues to invade the psychomaterial lives of the condemned. Invoking psychoanalysis and phenomenology to engage with modern psychopathologies and race, gender, and sexuality, Fanon developed seminal ideas on social suffering in the context of colonial violence on psychic life. In reading Fanon, we discern two challenges: the decolonial transcendence of psychoanalysis as a theoretical framework, and the decolonial transcendence of p…
The Case of Brazil
This article analyzes the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of the Amazonian populations of Brazil. Following the social quality approach, it inquires into how COVID-19 intertwined with and reinforced underlying trends and inequalities in different life domains expressed in long-term societal complexities, urban–rural dynamics, and environmental transformations. The article finds that the pandemic, following coloniality of power patte…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Against the backdrop of the global pandemic, which has deepened existing \nglobal struggles against coloniality and racist, heteropatriarchal, and capitalist \nsocial formations, this special issue focuses on Fanon, Southern Theory, and \nPsychoanalysis: Dialogues on Race, Gender, and Sexuality. In dialogue with the \nwork of Frantz Fanon-a key figure in thinking on colonialism and decolonization- \nand other critical thinkers from the Global Sou…
El Caribe, la colonialidad, y el giro decolonial
Este artículo explora la relevancia del Caribe para entender la colonialidad, la decolonialidad, y el giro decolonial. Confronta y comienza a corregir los efectos de cierto latinoamericano-centrismo en las formas usuales de entender el giro decolonial en América Latina, el Caribe mismo, y otras regiones. Se identifican tres sentidos distintos del giro decolonial: el giro decolonial como analítica, el giro decolonial como sociogénesis histórica, y…
What Is Decolonial Critique
Ethnic Studies as Decolonial Transdisciplinarity
The decolonization of knowledge entails various forms of transdisciplinarity, but not all forms of transdisciplinarity are decolonial. This article offers an analysis of decolonial transdisciplinarity in relation to the European sciences, its disciplines, and its methods. It identifies a "secular line," which combines with a "color line" to define the context and horizon of the European sciences. I propose that Ethnic Studies establishes a differ…
Decolonising Philosophy
Based on Maldonado-Torres’s formulation of the term, we conceive the decolonial turn as a form of liberating and decolonising reason beyond the liberal and Enlightened emancipation of rationality, and beyond the more radical Euro-critiques that have failed to consistently challenge the legacies of Eurocentrism and white male heteronormativity (often Eurocentric critiques of Eurocentrism). We complement Maldonado-Torres’s account of the decolonial…
Sobre la colonialidad del ser
Religion, Modernity, and Coloniality
The Decolonial Turn
The concept "decolonial turn" has been used to indicate the theoretical, artistic, and political relevance of a wide variety of positions in multiple geographical regions and fields of enquiry. Decolonizing thought arose in the very first moments of the conquest and colonization of the Americas, now more than 500 years ago. This chapter offers some clarification with respect to the concepts of colonization, decolonization, and related concepts su…
Frantz Fanon and the decolonial turn in psychology
Frantz Fanon, one of the foremost theoreticians of racism, colonization, and decolonization was a psychiatrist by training who wrote about psychology, social theory, and philosophy, among other areas. In his "work in psychology" Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon declares that he will "leave methods to the botanists and mathematicians." In the face of colonial methods and attitudes, he searches for a decolonial attitude that seeks to "build the world…
On the Coloniality of Human Rights
The universality of human rights is delimited by what is considered to effectively constitute the state of being human in the first place. In addition to a secular-line that separated the divine from the human, the hegemonic modern Western concept of the human emerged in relation to an onto-Manichean colonial line that often makes human rights discourse inefficient for addressing modern colonialism, or complicit with it. For any decolonization of…
Colonialism, Neocolonial, Internal Colonialism, the Postcolonial, Coloniality, and Decoloniality
In approaching the meaning and significance of concepts such as colonization, dependency, internal colonialism, and decoloniality in Latin America, it is convenient to identify certain key periods. The first key period is that of "discovery" and colonization (fifteenth-sixteenth centuries), which saw the emergence of a philosophy of colonization and multiple counterhegemonic ideas and efforts that questioned it in various ways. The second key per…
Transdisciplinaridade e decolonialidade
Enquanto espaços acadêmicos interdisciplinares têm lenta e gradualmente se espalhado na academia ocidental, seu estado está longe de ser claro. Eles são muitas vezes situados em estruturas preexistentes que limitam o seu âmbito de aplicação. Isto é particularmente verdadeiro no que se refere a espaços que não só se engajam no trabalho interdisciplinar, mas ainda àqueles que procuram romper com as formas de racismo epistêmico que fazem parte das h…
Race, Religion, and Ethics in the Modern/Colonial World
The concept of religion as an anthropological category and the idea of race as an organizing principle of human identification and social organization played a major role in the formation of modern/colonial systems of symbolic representation that acquired global significance with the expansion of Western modernity. The modern concepts of religion and race were mutually constituted and together became two of the most central categories in drawing …
AAR Centennial Roundtable
Journal Article AAR Centennial Roundtable: Religion, Conquest, and Race in the Foundations of the Modern/Colonial World Get access Nelson Maldonado-Torres Nelson Maldonado-Torres * *Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Lucy Stone Hall, A268, 54 Joyce Kilmer Ave., Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Research Fellow, Department of Political Sciences, College of Human Sciences, University of South Afri…
Frantz Fanon, Fifty Years On
On the Coloniality of Being
The concept of coloniality of Being emerged in discussions of a diverse group of scholars doing work on coloniality and decolonization.2 More particularly, we owe the idea to Walter D. Mignolo, who
Frantz Fanon and the decolonial turn in psychology
Frantz Fanon, one of the foremost theoreticians of racism, colonization, and decolonization was a psychiatrist by training who wrote about psychology, social theory, and philosophy, among other areas. In his "work in psychology" Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon declares that he will "leave methods to the botanists and mathematicians." In the face of colonial methods and attitudes, he searches for a decolonial attitude that seeks to "build the world…
The topology of being and the geopolitics of knowledge
This essay by Nelson Maldonado‐Torres examines the conjunction of race and space in the work of several European thinkers. It focuses on Martin Heidegger's project of Searching for roots in the West. This project of searching for roots is unmasked as being complicit with an imperial cartographical vision that creates and divides the cities of the gods and the cities of the damned. Maldonado‐Torres identifies similar conceptions in other Western t…
Thinking through the Decolonial Turn
This special issue of Transmodernity, "Thinking through the Decolonial Turn: Post-Continental Interventions in Theory, Philosophy, and Critique," stands on three fundamental premises that serve as the starting point for the dialogical encounters between intellectuals from Latin America, the Caribbean, and from minoritized sectors in the United States, particularly Latina/o and African American, who are featured here. The first one is that just as…
La descolonización y el giro des-colonial
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Transdisciplinaridade e decolonialidade
Enquanto espaços acadêmicos interdisciplinares têm lenta e gradualmente se espalhado na academia ocidental, seu estado está longe de ser claro. Eles são muitas vezes situados em estruturas preexistentes que limitam o seu âmbito de aplicação. Isto é particularmente verdadeiro no que se refere a espaços que não só se engajam no trabalho interdisciplinar, mas ainda àqueles que procuram romper com as formas de racismo epistêmico que fazem parte das h…
A topologia do Ser e a geopolítica do conhecimento. Modernidade, império e colonialidade1
O ensaio examina a articulação entre raça e espaço na obra de vários pensadores europeus. Centrando-se no projecto de Martin Heidegger de procurar no Ocidente as raízes, denuncia a cumplicidade desse projecto com uma visão cartográfica imperial que cria e separa as cidades dos deuses e as cidades dos danados. O autor identifica concepções análogas noutros pensadores ocidentais, sobretudo em Levinas, Negri, ˇZiˇzeck, Habermas e Derrida. Ao project…
Enrique Dussel's Liberation Thought in the Decolonial Turn
Liberation philosophy, as a Latin American project for critical thought, is one among many expressions of a shift in global power dynamics and in epistemic perspective that has taken place since the Second World War.*The European crisis, or more than a crisis, its own internal devastation after the war, opened at least three paths for the train of history and thought.On the one hand, the United States -which had proven itself as an international …
On the Coloniality of Human Rights
The universality of human rights is delimited by what is considered to effectively constitute the state of being human in the first place. In addition to a secular-line that separated the divine from the human, the hegemonic modern Western concept of the human emerged in relation to an onto-Manichean colonial line that often makes human rights discourse inefficient for addressing modern colonialism, or complicit with it. For any decolonization of…
AAR Centennial Roundtable
Journal Article AAR Centennial Roundtable: Religion, Conquest, and Race in the Foundations of the Modern/Colonial World Get access Nelson Maldonado-Torres Nelson Maldonado-Torres * *Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Lucy Stone Hall, A268, 54 Joyce Kilmer Ave., Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Research Fellow, Department of Political Sciences, College of Human Sciences, University of South Afri…
Césaire’s Gift and the Decolonial Turn
Aime Cesaire's Discourse on Colonialism is central to the project of decoloniality. It is a critical reflection on the European civilization project that gives expression to the disenchantment with European modernity that began to be felt in many places after the Second World War. This essay describes the overcoming of Cartesian reason through the decolonial gift, which makes possible an opening toward transmodernity, an alternate response or pat…
Ethnic Studies as Decolonial Transdisciplinarity
The decolonization of knowledge entails various forms of transdisciplinarity, but not all forms of transdisciplinarity are decolonial. This article offers an analysis of decolonial transdisciplinarity in relation to the European sciences, its disciplines, and its methods. It identifies a "secular line," which combines with a "color line" to define the context and horizon of the European sciences. I propose that Ethnic Studies establishes a differ…
Decoloniality at Large
To Don Carlos, Emperor of the Romans, King of Spain, lord of the Indies and of the New World. Lord sovereign: The greatest event since the creation of the world (excluding the incarnation and death of Him who created it) is the discovery of the Indies; and so it was called New World
Pensamento crítico desde a subalteridade
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The time and space of race
Maldonado-Torres identifies and analyses key elements in the methodology of David Theo Goldberg's The Threat of Race, highlighting its relevance for ethnic studies, area studies and postcolonial studies generally, and for the study of race and ethnicity specifically. He focuses on Goldberg's conceptualization of the history or the time of race, as well as on the geopolitical and economic dimensions of race and racism. Goldberg's account of race a…
Los latinos, los migrantes y la descolonización del imperio estadounidense en el siglo XXI
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Introduction to the Special Issue
Against the backdrop of the global pandemic, which has deepened existing \nglobal struggles against coloniality and racist, heteropatriarchal, and capitalist \nsocial formations, this special issue focuses on Fanon, Southern Theory, and \nPsychoanalysis: Dialogues on Race, Gender, and Sexuality. In dialogue with the \nwork of Frantz Fanon-a key figure in thinking on colonialism and decolonization- \nand other critical thinkers from the Global Sou…
Decolonization and the New Identitarian Logics After September 11
This essay examines the relationship between Americanism, the distinctive ideology of the U.S. American empire, and the predominant discourse in the age of its war on terror, and Eurocentrism, its competing ideology but nonetheless also its ally in defending the West against different
Gaza
Nuraan DavidsStellenbosch UniversityI don’t think we need to wait for history to tell us what we already know about Gaza. No amount of legal debates on the plausibility of its genocide status, can
The Case of Brazil
This article analyzes the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of the Amazonian populations of Brazil. Following the social quality approach, it inquires into how COVID-19 intertwined with and reinforced underlying trends and inequalities in different life domains expressed in long-term societal complexities, urban–rural dynamics, and environmental transformations. The article finds that the pandemic, following coloniality of power patte…
What Is Decolonial Critique
Frantz Fanon, Fifty Years On
Latinos in America
The Regressive Kernel of Orthodoxy
The topology of being and the geopolitics of knowledge
This essay by Nelson Maldonado‐Torres examines the conjunction of race and space in the work of several European thinkers. It focuses on Martin Heidegger's project of Searching for roots in the West. This project of searching for roots is unmasked as being complicit with an imperial cartographical vision that creates and divides the cities of the gods and the cities of the damned. Maldonado‐Torres identifies similar conceptions in other Western t…
Decolonization and the New Identitarian Logics After September 11
This essay examines the relationship between Americanism, the distinctive ideology of the U.S. American empire, and the predominant discourse in the age of its war on terror, and Eurocentrism, its competing ideology but nonetheless also its ally in defending the West against different
Césaire’s Gift and the Decolonial Turn
Aime Cesaire's Discourse on Colonialism is central to the project of decoloniality. It is a critical reflection on the European civilization project that gives expression to the disenchantment with European modernity that began to be felt in many places after the Second World War. This essay describes the overcoming of Cartesian reason through the decolonial gift, which makes possible an opening toward transmodernity, an alternate response or pat…
Pensamento crítico desde a subalteridade
.
On the Coloniality of Being
The concept of coloniality of Being emerged in discussions of a diverse group of scholars doing work on coloniality and decolonization.2 More particularly, we owe the idea to Walter D. Mignolo, who
Against War
A topologia do Ser e a geopolítica do conhecimento. Modernidade, império e colonialidade1
O ensaio examina a articulação entre raça e espaço na obra de vários pensadores europeus. Centrando-se no projecto de Martin Heidegger de procurar no Ocidente as raízes, denuncia a cumplicidade desse projecto com uma visão cartográfica imperial que cria e separa as cidades dos deuses e as cidades dos danados. O autor identifica concepções análogas noutros pensadores ocidentais, sobretudo em Levinas, Negri, ˇZiˇzeck, Habermas e Derrida. Ao project…
La descolonización y el giro des-colonial
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Los latinos, los migrantes y la descolonización del imperio estadounidense en el siglo XXI
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Latinos in America
The time and space of race
Maldonado-Torres identifies and analyses key elements in the methodology of David Theo Goldberg's The Threat of Race, highlighting its relevance for ethnic studies, area studies and postcolonial studies generally, and for the study of race and ethnicity specifically. He focuses on Goldberg's conceptualization of the history or the time of race, as well as on the geopolitical and economic dimensions of race and racism. Goldberg's account of race a…
Thinking through the Decolonial Turn
This special issue of Transmodernity, "Thinking through the Decolonial Turn: Post-Continental Interventions in Theory, Philosophy, and Critique," stands on three fundamental premises that serve as the starting point for the dialogical encounters between intellectuals from Latin America, the Caribbean, and from minoritized sectors in the United States, particularly Latina/o and African American, who are featured here. The first one is that just as…
Enrique Dussel's Liberation Thought in the Decolonial Turn
Liberation philosophy, as a Latin American project for critical thought, is one among many expressions of a shift in global power dynamics and in epistemic perspective that has taken place since the Second World War.*The European crisis, or more than a crisis, its own internal devastation after the war, opened at least three paths for the train of history and thought.On the one hand, the United States -which had proven itself as an international …
Decoloniality at Large
To Don Carlos, Emperor of the Romans, King of Spain, lord of the Indies and of the New World. Lord sovereign: The greatest event since the creation of the world (excluding the incarnation and death of Him who created it) is the discovery of the Indies; and so it was called New World
Frantz Fanon, Fifty Years On
Race, Religion, and Ethics in the Modern/Colonial World
The concept of religion as an anthropological category and the idea of race as an organizing principle of human identification and social organization played a major role in the formation of modern/colonial systems of symbolic representation that acquired global significance with the expansion of Western modernity. The modern concepts of religion and race were mutually constituted and together became two of the most central categories in drawing …
AAR Centennial Roundtable
Journal Article AAR Centennial Roundtable: Religion, Conquest, and Race in the Foundations of the Modern/Colonial World Get access Nelson Maldonado-Torres Nelson Maldonado-Torres * *Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Lucy Stone Hall, A268, 54 Joyce Kilmer Ave., Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Research Fellow, Department of Political Sciences, College of Human Sciences, University of South Afri…
Colonialism, Neocolonial, Internal Colonialism, the Postcolonial, Coloniality, and Decoloniality
In approaching the meaning and significance of concepts such as colonization, dependency, internal colonialism, and decoloniality in Latin America, it is convenient to identify certain key periods. The first key period is that of "discovery" and colonization (fifteenth-sixteenth centuries), which saw the emergence of a philosophy of colonization and multiple counterhegemonic ideas and efforts that questioned it in various ways. The second key per…
Transdisciplinaridade e decolonialidade
Enquanto espaços acadêmicos interdisciplinares têm lenta e gradualmente se espalhado na academia ocidental, seu estado está longe de ser claro. Eles são muitas vezes situados em estruturas preexistentes que limitam o seu âmbito de aplicação. Isto é particularmente verdadeiro no que se refere a espaços que não só se engajam no trabalho interdisciplinar, mas ainda àqueles que procuram romper com as formas de racismo epistêmico que fazem parte das h…
Religion, Modernity, and Coloniality
The Decolonial Turn
The concept "decolonial turn" has been used to indicate the theoretical, artistic, and political relevance of a wide variety of positions in multiple geographical regions and fields of enquiry. Decolonizing thought arose in the very first moments of the conquest and colonization of the Americas, now more than 500 years ago. This chapter offers some clarification with respect to the concepts of colonization, decolonization, and related concepts su…
Frantz Fanon and the decolonial turn in psychology
Frantz Fanon, one of the foremost theoreticians of racism, colonization, and decolonization was a psychiatrist by training who wrote about psychology, social theory, and philosophy, among other areas. In his "work in psychology" Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon declares that he will "leave methods to the botanists and mathematicians." In the face of colonial methods and attitudes, he searches for a decolonial attitude that seeks to "build the world…
On the Coloniality of Human Rights
The universality of human rights is delimited by what is considered to effectively constitute the state of being human in the first place. In addition to a secular-line that separated the divine from the human, the hegemonic modern Western concept of the human emerged in relation to an onto-Manichean colonial line that often makes human rights discourse inefficient for addressing modern colonialism, or complicit with it. For any decolonization of…
Decolonising Philosophy
Based on Maldonado-Torres’s formulation of the term, we conceive the decolonial turn as a form of liberating and decolonising reason beyond the liberal and Enlightened emancipation of rationality, and beyond the more radical Euro-critiques that have failed to consistently challenge the legacies of Eurocentrism and white male heteronormativity (often Eurocentric critiques of Eurocentrism). We complement Maldonado-Torres’s account of the decolonial…
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