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Talking about Global Inequality Personal Experiences and Historical Perspectives

The Colonial Matrix of Power

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Mignolo, W
January 1, 2023

Walter Mignolo is an Argentine semiotician, philosopher, and literary scholar who has devoted his career to study the historical foundations of the modern/colonial world system and imaginary since 1500. He is a William Hane Wannamaker Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University and has written several award-winning books, such as The darker side of the renaissance: literacy, territoriality and colonization (1996), and Idea of Latin America (2006). In this essay, Mignolo takes us back to his childhood in the Argentine countryside, through his years as a university student, to his theories about coloniality/modernity, and his proposal of decolonizing knowledge and moving away from European-centered epistemologies.

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Mignolo, W. (2023). The Colonial Matrix of Power. In Talking about Global Inequality Personal Experiences and Historical Perspectives (pp. 39–46). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08042-5_5
Mignolo, W. “The Colonial Matrix of Power.” In Talking about Global Inequality Personal Experiences and Historical Perspectives, 39–46, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08042-5_5.
Mignolo W. The Colonial Matrix of Power. In: Talking about Global Inequality Personal Experiences and Historical Perspectives. 2023. p. 39–46.
Mignolo, W. “The Colonial Matrix of Power.” Talking about Global Inequality Personal Experiences and Historical Perspectives, 2023, pp. 39–46. Scopus, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-08042-5_5.
Mignolo W. The Colonial Matrix of Power. Talking about Global Inequality Personal Experiences and Historical Perspectives. 2023. p. 39–46.

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January 1, 2023

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