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American philosophy
Archipelagic Thinking
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Caribbean archipelago
Caribbean philosophy
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coloniality
coloniality of space
critical geography
decolonial theory
early modern political philosophy
early modernity
Edouard Glissant
Enrique Dussel
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Foucault
Francisco de Vitoria
human subjectivity
indigeneity
international law
Latin American philosophy
Maria Lugones
materialism
movement
political theory
Resistance
spatial ordering
transmodernity
Product details
- ISBN 9781478032878
- Weight: 445g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In The Invention of Order, Don Thomas Deere retraces the colonial origins of spatial organization in the Americas and the Caribbean and its lasting impact on modern structures of knowledge, power, race, gender as well as understandings of global modernity. The coloniality of space dispossessed Indigenous, African, and mixed populations as it constructed new systems of control and movement. Deere demonstrates how these developments manifested, among other forms, in urban grid patterns imposed during the development of Spanish colonial cities as well as totalizing trade routes crisscrossing the Atlantic. Drawing on a range of thinkers including Enrique Dussel, Édouard Glissant, and Sylvia Wynter, Deere reveals how movement - who travels, who settles, and who is excluded - becomes an essential component of control under colonial rule. Against the violence of spatial reordering, Deere outlines how novel forms of resistance and insurgency geographies still take hold, particularly in the Caribbean, where landscapes remain excessive, eruptive, and uncaptured by the order of modernity.
Don Thomas Deere is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Texas A&M University.
