Nelson Maldonado‐Torres
Biographic Data
| ID | 7337430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nelson Maldonado‐Torres |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nelson |
| FAMILY NAME | Maldonado‐Torres |
| SIGNATURE | TORRES N M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Philosophy University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Modernity (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)