Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Nelson Maldonado-Torres (born 1971, in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican philosopher and professor in Philosophy at University of Connecticut-Storrs. He received his PhD from Brown University in Religious Studies. His work has been influential in contributing to ideas about decoloniality decolonizing epistemology, and in critiquing Western liberalism and Eurocentrism. He is influenced by the works of Frantz Fanon, Emmanuel Levinas, and Enrique Dussel.

He critiques the notion of representational politics as being enough to contribute to systemic change. His work has been described as "animated by an ethic of decolonial love." He is also noted for contributing to discourse on the ''decolonial turn''. Provided by Wikipedia