Nelson Maldonado-Torres

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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]

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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]

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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]

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  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. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 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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