Global coloniality and the Asian century Walter Mignolo 2015, Cultural Dynamics

https://www.academia.edu/171336966/Global_coloniality_and_the_Asian_century?email_work_card=title The idea of this special issue originated during Walter Mignolo’s visiting scholarship (January–June 2012) at the Advanced Center for Cross-Disciplinary Studies at the City University of Hong Kong. To implement the idea a workshop was organized during the first week of June under the umbrella title we are using for this special issue. The topic of the workshop emerged at the crossroads of, on the one hand, the return of Asia and the irreversible shift to the Eastern Hemisphere and, on the other hand, the announcement by US Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in November of 2011, in Honolulu that “the twenty-first century will be the American Pacific century.