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3 Birkbeck L. Rev. 13 (2015)
Decolonising Epistemologies, Politicising Rights: An Interview with Eduardo Mandieta

handle is hein.journals/birkbek3 and id is 22 raw text is: Interview: Eduardo Mendieta Decolonising Epistemologies, Politicising Rights: An Interview with Eduardo Mendieta ENRIQUE PRIETO-RIOS AND KOJO KORAM* THE BIRKBECK LAW REVIEW: Professor Mendieta, thank you for leading a seminar at Birkbeck School of Law. In the seminar we had the opportunity to discuss some of your work, including your essays 'Globalization, Cosmopolitics, Decoloniality: Politics for/of the Anthropocene', and 'Interspecies Cosmopolitanism', among others. Could you say something about the ideas in these texts that led you to choose them for our discussion? EDUARDO MENDIETA:' Before I answer your question let me begin by thanking Kojo and Enrique for all the organising, co- ordinating, and promotions that you did for the seminar. It certainly would not have been so successful without your efforts. I also wanted to thank all the participants of the seminar over the two days I was at the Birkbeck School of Law. I was very honoured to have been invited by Professor Guardiola-Rivera to hold a seminar de- voted to my work. It was a wonderful occasion for me both profes- sionally and philosophically. Now, when Professor Guardiola-Rivera invited me to organise a seminar on my work, he asked me to send him some texts that * PhD Law candidates, Birkbeck, University of London. Special thanks to Paddy McDaid for facilitating the interview. Professor of philosophy, and chair of the department of philosophy, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Author of The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield 2002) and Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and Critical Theory (SUNY Press 2007). Co- editor with Jonathan VanAntwerpen of The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (Columbia University Press 2011), with Craig Calhoun and Jonathan VanAntwerpen of Habermas and Religion (Polity 2013), and with Stuart Elden of Reading Kant's Geography (SUNY Press 2011). His most recently finished book is titled The Philosophical Animal, and will be published by SUNY Press in 2015. 13

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