"The Invention of Order argues that the development of the cartographic grid during the discovery of the Americas gave rise to a colonial principle of sorting and ordering territories into those already claimed by European powers and those deemed empty, or ready for appropriation from their Indigenous inhabitants. While this racialized spatial logic has predominated from the Age of Discovery into the contemporary globalized moment, Don Thomas Deere contends that far from being a terrain of complete domination, space is a major ground for political and epistemic struggle for colonized peoples. The first half of the book builds a genealogical account of how space was racialized in Spanish colonial cities by tracking which subjects were allowed mobility and which were not. In the second half, Deere theorizes the conceptual development of spatial resistance through key Latin American and Caribbean thinkers, including Enrique Dussel and Edouard Glissant, in order to examine contemporary instantiations of spatial resistance by groups like the Zapatistas. In doing so, Deere provides an incisive account of the coloniality of space across centuries"--.