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What Goes Around Comes Around: From the Coloniality of Power to the Crisis of Civilization

Journal of World-Systems Research

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Title What Goes Around Comes Around: From the Coloniality of Power to the Crisis of Civilization
 
Creator Figueroa Helland, Leonardo E.
Lindgren, Tim
 
Subject Global Studies; Political Science; Political Economy; Political Ecology; Justice Studies; Environmental Studies
World-System, Hegemony, Civilization, Crisis, Coloniality, Transition
 
Description This article combines world-systems, decolonial, eco-feminist and post-human ecological approaches to deconstruct the planetary crisis of the hegemonic civilization. Underpinned by anthropocentric, androcentric, hetero-patriarchal, Euro/Western-centric, modern/colonial and capitalist systems of power, this civilization causes devastating socioecological effects. Globalized through (neo)colonialism/(neo)imperialism, it has subjugated the rural under the urban and the Global South under the North, becoming globally hegemonic. Through the coloniality of power hegemonic conceptions of progress, growth, development and modernity have been spread, procuring the loyalty of semi-peripheral and peripheral regimes into a civilizational obsession with endless accumulation based on the “mastery of nature.” Most “postcolonial” elites, especially across “emerging economies,” have not broken with this coloniality. They often reproduce govern-mentalities aimed at “catching-up” with, cloning, emulating, imitating or conforming to hegemonic models enacted in the North’s metropolitan cores. Overcoming this crisis requires not only a critique of neoliberal capitalist modernity, but a world-systemic transformation towards ecosufficient lifeways based on indigenous, eco-feminist, and post-human alternatives.
 
Publisher University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
 
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Date 2016-08-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/631
10.5195/jwsr.2016.631
 
Source Journal of World-Systems Research; Vol 22, No 2 (2016): Special Issue: Coloniality of Power and Hegemonic Shifts in the World-System; 430-462
1076-156X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/631/831
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 Leonardo Esteban Figueroa Helland, Tim Lindgren
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