Paulo Henrique Martins is a Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne. He was former president of the Latin American Sociological Association (ALAS); and Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CNPq) in Brazil.

Introduction: The emergence of a Critical Theory of Coloniality

Part I: Postcolonial Epistemologies

1. Colonial Capitalism and Theoretical Criticism: Intersections between the Global South and the Global North

2. Critical Theory of Coloniality and Internal Colonialism

3. Narratives of the Crisis: Between neoliberal recoloniality and the versions in dispute

Part II: Power and Knowledge in Peripheral Societies

4. Sociological Critique of Oligarchic Power

5. Impasses of development, sociological knowledge and uncertainties of peripheral societies

Part III: Democratic Utopias

6. Thinking about the convivialist heterotopia: Territory, love and the common good

7. Bien Vivir and Postcolonial Democracy: The Case of Indigenous Communities in Andean America

Conclusion

Critical Theory of Coloniality: Towards a plural, decolonised, cosmopolitan and border critical theory