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 Epistemologies1. 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 Societies4. Sociological Critique of Oligarchic Power 5. Impasses of development, sociological knowledge and uncertainties of peripheral societies Part III: Democratic Utopias6. 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

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 Epistemologies1. 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 Societies4. Sociological Critique of Oligarchic Power 5. Impasses of development, sociological knowledge and uncertainties of peripheral societies Part III: Democratic Utopias6. 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