Angola and the Atlantic | Colonialism, Coloniality and Decolonial Epistemology

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Beginning of Things
• Colonialism
• Tools of Colonialism: Fixity and Stereotype
• Iberian Colonialism in the Atlantic: Exploration, Settlement, and Peripheral
• Portuguese Peripheral Colonialism in Angola: Subcolonization or Overcolonization? Specificities
• Transculturation in the Spaces of Portuguese Colonialism – The Case of Angola
• Colonialism and the Cold War in Southern Africa
• The Long Temporality of Portuguese Colonialism – Desynchronization and Rupture of the Eurocentric Model and the Angolan Peculiarity
• Portuguese Colonialism and the Return of the "Empire": Eduardo Lourenço's Organic Colonialism and Deterritorialized Empire
• Colonialism and Modernity — Dark Africa and the Berlin Conference
• "Enlightened" America and the Rationalist "Point Zero"
• Consequences of Iberian Colonization in Latin America: Coloniality and the Hierarchy of Races
• Atlantic Cultures (From the South)
• Borders, Border Cultures, and New Dynamics of Limits
• Cultural Translation, Hybridization, and In-Between Spaces
• The "Forgetfulness" of Coloniality by Eurocentric Thought
• Internal Colonialism and Marginality
• Amerindian and African Thought and the Perverse Seduction of the Latter by Colonialism
• Theory of "Abyssal Thinking"
• "This Side of the Line"
• "The Other Side of the Line"
• Ecology of Knowledges, Post-Abyssal Thinking, Subaltern Cosmopolitanism
• Angola, a Post-Colonial Modern State, and the Civil War
• Neocolonialism
• Eurocentrism: Capitalism and Historical Materialism
• Civil War, Nomenclature, and Corruption
• The Ineffective State and Neocolonialism – The Inheritance That Needs to Change
• Disadaptation of the Nation-State in Africa – Coloniality and Almost Failed State
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• Bibliographical References