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Walter D. Mignolo

Walter D. Mignolo

William Hane Wannamaker Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Romance Studies
Literature
wmignolo@duke.edu
Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0413
125B Friedl Building, Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Tuesdays and Thursdays by appointment (between 1pm and 3 pm)  

Featured Works

Coloniality is far from over, and so must be decoloniality

Journal article Afterall · January 1, 2017 Featured Work Walter D. Mignolo describes the necessary work of delinking from Western narratives in order to relink and affirm the modes of existence we want to preserve. ... Full text Cite

The Making and Closing of Eurocentric International Law and The Opening of a Multipolar World Order (forthcoming)

Journal article CSSAAME (Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East) · May 2016 Featured Work Cite

The historiographical metatext and new world historiography

Book section · January 1, 2016 Featured Work Cite

Epistemischer Ungehorsam. Rhetorik der Moderne, Logik der Kolonialität und Grammatik der Dekolonialität (German Translation)

Book · 2012 Featured Work Hier wird ein zentraler Autor der lateinamerikanischen Dekolonialismus-Debatte vorgestellt. »Epistemischer Ungehorsam« ist ein umfassendes Projekt, das - wie jeder Ungehorsam - mit einer Infragestellung bestehender Regelsysteme und Begründungszusammenhänge ... Cite

El vuelco de la razón: diferencia colonial y pensamiento fronterizo

Book · 2011 Featured Work In this collection of four articles, the book explores the concept of colonial difference (as well as imperial difference) and argues that it is there where border thinking dwells. Consequently, the decolonial option found its existential and analytic nich ... Cite

De la hermenéutica y la semiosis colonial al pensar descolonial

Book · 2011 Featured Work A collection of five articles, in Spanish, from 1983 to 1995 that are the foundation of my major books since ¨The Darker Side of the Renaissance.¨ An introduction by Gustavo Verdesio explains the trajectory. ... Cite

Globalization and the Decolonial Option

Other · September 2009 Featured Work This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United Stat ... Cite

The Idea of Latin America

Book · 2005 Featured Work Cite

Loci of enunciation and imaginary constructions: The Case of (Latin) America

Journal article Special issue of Poetics Today · 1995 Featured Work Cite