Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Nelson Maldonado-Torres (born 1971, in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican philosopher and professor in Philosophy at University of Connecticut-Storrs.[1] He received his PhD from Brown University in Religious Studies.[2] His work has been influential in contributing to ideas about decoloniality[3] decolonizing epistemology,[4] and in critiquing Western liberalism and Eurocentrism.[5][6] He is influenced by the works of Frantz Fanon, Emmanuel Levinas, and Enrique Dussel.[7]

He critiques the notion of representational politics as being enough to contribute to systemic change.[5] His work has been described as "animated by an ethic of decolonial love."[8] He is also noted for contributing to discourse on the decolonial turn.[9][10][11]

Career

He was the head of the Caribbean Philosophical Association from 2008 to 2013.[12] He was one of the signatories to support the creation for a Latina/o Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States.[12]

Publications

Books

• Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity (2008)[13]
• La descolonización y el giro de(s)colonial (2012)[12]

Select articles

• "On the coloniality of being: Contributions to the development of a concept" (2007)
• "Thinking through the decolonial turn: Post-continental interventions in theory, philosophy, and critique—An introduction" (2011)
• "Outline of ten theses on coloniality and decoloniality" (2016)

References

1. Shaughnessy, Tristan. "Professor Nelson Maldonado-Torres Makes the Case for Ethnic Studies". The Inquirer. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
2. "Author Maldonado-Torres to Lead Hispanic Heritage Month Program Monday | News | University of Wyoming". www.uwyo.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
3. Mostrador, El (2022-10-22). "Alexander Ortiz Ocaña y el decolonialismo: "Hay una trampa en la pretensión y en la intención humanista de la pedagogía"". El Mostrador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-17.
4. Naidu-Hoffmeester, Rivonia (2017). "Why the decoloniality struggle surprised South Africans".
5. Maldonado-Torres, Nelson. "Black Faces in High Places". LA Progressive. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
6. Moses, John A. "Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity–By Nelson Maldonado‐Torres." (2011): 444-445.
7. Erdel, Timothy Paul (2011-11-01). "Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity". Faith and Philosophy. 28 (4): 483–487. doi:10.5840/faithphil201128451.
8. Wanzer-Serrano, Darrel (2015-01-02). "Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity". Quarterly Journal of Speech. 101 (1): 324–327. doi:10.1080/00335630.2015.994895. ISSN 0033-5630.
9. Cal, Russell (2022-11-07). "Nelson Maldonado-Torres: Sobre a Colonialidade doSer and El Mostrador | Philosophy Department". Retrieved 2022-11-17.
10. Maldonado-Torres, Nelson; Cavooris, Robert, "The Decolonial Turn", New Approaches to Latin American Studies, doi:10.4324/9781315158365-8/decolonial-turn-nelson-maldonado-torres-robert-cavooris, retrieved 2022-11-17
11. Grosfoguel, Ramón (2007-03-01). "The Epistemic Decolonial Turn". Cultural Studies. 21 (2–3): 211–223. doi:10.1080/09502380601162514. ISSN 0950-2386.
12. Martel, Michelle. "Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Ph.D." latcar.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
13. Maldonado-Torres, Nelson (2008-03-19). Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity. Duke University Press.

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