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.