Learning to Unlearn

<div> <p><i>Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflections from Eurasia and the Americas</i> is a complex multisided rethinking of the epistemic matrix of Western modernity and coloniality from the position of border epistemology. Colonial and imperial differences are the two key concepts to understanding how the logic of coloniality creates ontological and epistemic exteriorities. Being at once an enactment of decolonial thinking and an attempt to define its main grounds mechanisms and concepts the book shifts the politics of knowledge from studying the other (culture society economy politics) toward the thinking other (the authors).</p>   Addressing areas as diverse as the philosophy of higher education gender citizenship human rights and indigenous agency and providing fascinating and little-known examples of decolonial thinking education and art Madina V. Tlostanova and Walter D. Mignolo deconstruct the modern architecture of knowledge-its production and distribution as manifested in the corporate university. In addition the authors dwell on and define the echoing global decolonial sensibilities as expressed in the Americas and in peripheral Eurasia.   The book is an important addition to the emerging transoceanic inquiries that introduce decolonial thought and non-Western border epistemologies not only to update or transform disciplines but also to act and think decolonially in the global futures to come.</div>