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Papers by Walter Mignolo
Globalization, Past, Present and Future, 2023
The current world order, seen from the history of the colonial matrix of power, carries all the s... more The current world order, seen from the history of the colonial matrix of power, carries all the signs of the advent of the third nomos of the earth. I read Carl Schmitt from the decolonial perspective opened up by Anibal Quijano.
Current Sociology Monograph, 2014
A decolonial essay on the geopolitics of knowledge and on the shift of knowledge production to th... more A decolonial essay on the geopolitics of knowledge and on the shift of knowledge production to the East, parallel to the shift of political and economic power decision. Or if you with the dispute for the control knowlege and the regulation of knowing Current of the colonial matrix of power
Nepantla. View from South, 2003
There is a renewed interests in education and the university in Argentina, today (2024), given th... more There is a renewed interests in education and the university in Argentina, today (2024), given the state politics to marginalize higher education. Next to the street manifestations, there are working groups emerging interacting the politics of the province opposed to the central government and the universities, both administrators and professors. I participated in one of those encounters and refreshed this essays published in 2003.
IBRAAZ. Contermporary Visual Culture in North Africa and the Middle East, 2013
A reflection on Sharjah Biennial 11, 2013, curated by Yuko Hasegawa. I explore the concept of dew... more A reflection on Sharjah Biennial 11, 2013, curated by Yuko Hasegawa. I explore the concept of dewesternization in the sphere of culture, parallel to political and economic dewesternization, the BRICS+ for example. It is a decolonial reading of dewesternization or decolonial thinking projected to dewesternization.
Afterall, 2017
This is the paper that promted the conversation with Canadian curator Wanda Nanibush, uploaded in... more This is the paper that promted the conversation with Canadian curator Wanda Nanibush, uploaded in Academia.edu
Originally published in IBRAAZ, 2013
A reflection on cultural dewesternization base on the Museum of the Islamic Art in Doha and the M... more A reflection on cultural dewesternization base on the Museum of the Islamic Art in Doha and the Museum of Asian Civilizations in Singapore
This video recording is from the University of North Texas Global Studies Faculty Seminar visitin... more This video recording is from the University of North Texas Global Studies Faculty Seminar visiting speaker series. This video features an interview with Dr. Walter Mignolo, professor at Duke University.
Acta Poética, 2005
sugirih, en 1940, que 10s gkneros debieran concebirse en tkrminos de imperatives institucionales;... more sugirih, en 1940, que 10s gkneros debieran concebirse en tkrminos de imperatives institucionales; de pautas que ejercen una coerci6n a las que la obra del escritor se couforma o tiende a modificar. T,Vellelr. y 6\Tarren infieren de este principio que la teoria de 10s gkneros debe ordenar y clasificar la literatura y la historia literaria no por tiempo y lugar, sino por organizaci6n o estructura. Hay, en estas concepciones, dos niveles que es preciso distinguir y matices que es necesario agregar:l a) Pearson se refiere a la funcihn de 10s gkneros en la acti-' Esta es una versi6n revisada de la exposici6n oral. El diilogo nosterior a ella contribuv6 tanto a aclarar almnas de las ideas ex-" puestas coma a precisar otras.
Enchantments of Modernity, 2012
Text and Discourse Connectedness, 1989
Este artículo es producto de la investigación realizada por el autor sobre democracia, capitalism... more Este artículo es producto de la investigación realizada por el autor sobre democracia, capitalismo y giro decolonial. En este artículo continúa las reflexiones iniciadas en «¿Giro a la izquierda o giro descolonial?
Translation and Ethnography, 2003
Localities, 2012
To examine the historical and cultural transitions from "global colonialism" to "global coloniali... more To examine the historical and cultural transitions from "global colonialism" to "global coloniality," we need to perform more fieldwork and historical research on specific locations and cultural phenomena so as to flesh out contrastive theoretical insights and historical hindsight. We must study specific locations, sites, architectural buildings, artifacts, and objects under the conceptual umbrella of "locality" to understand the contesting layers of colonial, local, and national significations, historical traces, and cultural meanings. Further investigation is required to look at the functions and
This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around... more 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 States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de-colonization of knowledge as an epistemological restitution with political and ethical implications. Epistemic decolonization, or de-coloniality, becomes the horizon to imagine and act toward global futures in which the notion of a political enemy is replaced by intercultural communication and towards another rationality First published 2010 by Routledge
Globalization, Past, Present and Future, 2023
The current world order, seen from the history of the colonial matrix of power, carries all the s... more The current world order, seen from the history of the colonial matrix of power, carries all the signs of the advent of the third nomos of the earth. I read Carl Schmitt from the decolonial perspective opened up by Anibal Quijano.
Current Sociology Monograph, 2014
A decolonial essay on the geopolitics of knowledge and on the shift of knowledge production to th... more A decolonial essay on the geopolitics of knowledge and on the shift of knowledge production to the East, parallel to the shift of political and economic power decision. Or if you with the dispute for the control knowlege and the regulation of knowing Current of the colonial matrix of power
Nepantla. View from South, 2003
There is a renewed interests in education and the university in Argentina, today (2024), given th... more There is a renewed interests in education and the university in Argentina, today (2024), given the state politics to marginalize higher education. Next to the street manifestations, there are working groups emerging interacting the politics of the province opposed to the central government and the universities, both administrators and professors. I participated in one of those encounters and refreshed this essays published in 2003.
IBRAAZ. Contermporary Visual Culture in North Africa and the Middle East, 2013
A reflection on Sharjah Biennial 11, 2013, curated by Yuko Hasegawa. I explore the concept of dew... more A reflection on Sharjah Biennial 11, 2013, curated by Yuko Hasegawa. I explore the concept of dewesternization in the sphere of culture, parallel to political and economic dewesternization, the BRICS+ for example. It is a decolonial reading of dewesternization or decolonial thinking projected to dewesternization.
Afterall, 2017
This is the paper that promted the conversation with Canadian curator Wanda Nanibush, uploaded in... more This is the paper that promted the conversation with Canadian curator Wanda Nanibush, uploaded in Academia.edu
Originally published in IBRAAZ, 2013
A reflection on cultural dewesternization base on the Museum of the Islamic Art in Doha and the M... more A reflection on cultural dewesternization base on the Museum of the Islamic Art in Doha and the Museum of Asian Civilizations in Singapore
This video recording is from the University of North Texas Global Studies Faculty Seminar visitin... more This video recording is from the University of North Texas Global Studies Faculty Seminar visiting speaker series. This video features an interview with Dr. Walter Mignolo, professor at Duke University.
Acta Poética, 2005
sugirih, en 1940, que 10s gkneros debieran concebirse en tkrminos de imperatives institucionales;... more sugirih, en 1940, que 10s gkneros debieran concebirse en tkrminos de imperatives institucionales; de pautas que ejercen una coerci6n a las que la obra del escritor se couforma o tiende a modificar. T,Vellelr. y 6\Tarren infieren de este principio que la teoria de 10s gkneros debe ordenar y clasificar la literatura y la historia literaria no por tiempo y lugar, sino por organizaci6n o estructura. Hay, en estas concepciones, dos niveles que es preciso distinguir y matices que es necesario agregar:l a) Pearson se refiere a la funcihn de 10s gkneros en la acti-' Esta es una versi6n revisada de la exposici6n oral. El diilogo nosterior a ella contribuv6 tanto a aclarar almnas de las ideas ex-" puestas coma a precisar otras.
Enchantments of Modernity, 2012
Text and Discourse Connectedness, 1989
Este artículo es producto de la investigación realizada por el autor sobre democracia, capitalism... more Este artículo es producto de la investigación realizada por el autor sobre democracia, capitalismo y giro decolonial. En este artículo continúa las reflexiones iniciadas en «¿Giro a la izquierda o giro descolonial?
Translation and Ethnography, 2003
Localities, 2012
To examine the historical and cultural transitions from "global colonialism" to "global coloniali... more To examine the historical and cultural transitions from "global colonialism" to "global coloniality," we need to perform more fieldwork and historical research on specific locations and cultural phenomena so as to flesh out contrastive theoretical insights and historical hindsight. We must study specific locations, sites, architectural buildings, artifacts, and objects under the conceptual umbrella of "locality" to understand the contesting layers of colonial, local, and national significations, historical traces, and cultural meanings. Further investigation is required to look at the functions and
This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around... more 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 States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de-colonization of knowledge as an epistemological restitution with political and ethical implications. Epistemic decolonization, or de-coloniality, becomes the horizon to imagine and act toward global futures in which the notion of a political enemy is replaced by intercultural communication and towards another rationality First published 2010 by Routledge
Acciones y Exhibiciones para descolonizar las narrativas de tu museo, 2024
La colonialidad en tu museo agrupa ensayous surgidos de un seminario on-line con curadoras y cura... more La colonialidad en tu museo agrupa ensayous surgidos de un seminario on-line con curadoras y curadores de América Latina y el Caribe. La propuesta fue pensar la colonialidad ¨en tu museo¨ donde trabajas, donde se manifiesta, donde la percibes y cómo la sientes. Por lo tanto, percibir y sentir la colonialidad es siempre ya estar habitando la descolonialidad
Appendix 225 notes 237 Bibliography 253 Index 268 4 • I n t r o d u c t I o n
*Unbecoming Modern*, second edition, Routledge and Social Science Press, 2019
Twelve years after its initial publication, Unbecoming Modern is being reissued in an internation... more Twelve years after its initial publication, Unbecoming Modern is being reissued in an international edition with Routledge. This is a matter of some gratification and intellectual enthusiasm, especially as an earlier avatar of the work (Dube, Banerjee-Dube, and Mignolo, 2004) in the Spanish language continues to garner much critical interest in different parts of the world. The attraction derives from the place of this wider endeavour as possibly the only one of its kind that sets up key conversations between Latin American and South Asian worlds, particularly as turning on the interplay between the colonial and the modern. The appeal is equally related to the fact that various chapters in the volume articulate key concerns of “coloniality” (of power) and “decoloniality” (of knowledge), which have acquired wide address and vital significance in scholarly and political arenas. Indeed, Unbecoming Modern and the questions it raises have themselves formed part of the larger articulation of such interests and issues.
Observaciones Latinoamericanas , 2012
Este libro reúne diversos artículos sobre pensamiento, cultura e historia latinoamericana y carib... more Este libro reúne diversos artículos sobre pensamiento, cultura e historia latinoamericana y caribeña. Participan: Hugo Zemelman, Hernán Neira, María Eugenia Borsani, Walter Mignolo, Aldo Mascareño, Javier Pinedo, Jorge Osorio Vargas, Román de la Campa, Alejandro De Oto y Juan Francisco Martínez Peria.
A collection of essays written approximately between 1992 and 2014.
Reservados los derechos para todos los países. Ninguna parte de la publicación incluido el diseño... more Reservados los derechos para todos los países. Ninguna parte de la publicación incluido el diseño de cubierta, puede ser reproducido, almacenado o transmitido de ninguna forma, ni por ningún medio, sea este electrónico, químico, mecánico, electroóptico, grabación, fotocopia o cualquier otro, sin la previa autorización escrita por parte de la editorial.
A theoretical overview of the project modernity/coloniality/decoloniality
A translation into Italian of selected articles written by members of the collective modernity/co... more A translation into Italian of selected articles written by members of the collective modernity/coloniality. A substantive introduction by Gennaro Ascione opens the volume. http://www.lavoroculturale.org/america-latina-e-modernita/
Afterall, 2018
A conversation with Canadian curator Wanda Nanibush on art and decoloniality
EAST EAST , 2012
A conversation on philosophy and the humanities with Madina Tlostanova requeste by EastEast
A sustained conversation during at STIAS, in July-August 2015
Sobre los equivocos epistemicos de localizaciones geograficas. Los bordes, las fronteras, se encu... more Sobre los equivocos epistemicos de localizaciones geograficas. Los bordes, las fronteras, se encuentran en el Norte y en el Sur, en el Este y el Oeste.
Entrevista publicada por el Departamento de Educacion de la Universidad Nacional de Buenos Airs
Almost 15 years ago i published Local HIstories/Global Designs. Main thesis: there is only local ... more Almost 15 years ago i published Local HIstories/Global Designs. Main thesis: there is only local histories, but there are a few local histories that can devise and implement global designs. We in the planet are turning toward the local, but not local States, but local ways of life and governance away from State and Corporations and Finance Centers. I am updating this thesis
This video recording is from the University of North Texas Global Studies Faculty Seminar visitin... more This video recording is from the University of North Texas Global Studies Faculty Seminar visiting speaker series. This video features an interview with Dr. Walter Mignolo, professor at Duke University by Dr. Neilesh Bose.
The 10th anniversary of the Middelburg Decolonial Summer School is devoted to "The Consumption of... more The 10th anniversary of the Middelburg Decolonial Summer School is devoted to "The Consumption of Life and the Regeneration of the Communal."
What does it mean to decolonize? The Middelburg Decolonial Summer School, in its 9th year, will b... more What does it mean to decolonize? The Middelburg Decolonial Summer School, in its 9th year, will be devoted to explore "What does it mean to decolonize?" when "democracy" is at stake, both in its domestic (nation-state) discourse and praxis and in inter-state relations. Is "democracy" universal? It is even global? Or it is a good idea as Mahatma Gandhi said about the idea of "civilization."
Cultural Dynamics, 2015
As the title indicate, an special issue based on a workshop at the City University of Hong Kong i... more As the title indicate, an special issue based on a workshop at the City University of Hong Kong in 2012. We were sensing the shift of global power to the East.
arteBA, 2016
This dossier is based on a text written jointly by Dorota Biczel, Andrea Giunta and Luis Vargas S... more This dossier is based on a text written jointly by Dorota Biczel, Andrea Giunta and Luis Vargas Santiago on the situation of art in the contemporary world; that text was sent out to a group of theorists, artists, and curators (Walter Mignolo, Agustín Pérez Rubio, Gonzalo Aguilar, Nestor García Canclini, Nelly Richard, and Nicole Franchy). Together, their replies trace a map of radical stances. What follows makes most sense if all the individual texts are considered as a whole. We propose starting with the initial text, which formulates the questions that were envisaged as triggers, and then continuing with the polemic positions articulated in response.
This dossier is the first out of two instalments on Decolonization for the Buenos Aires's magazine ArteBA. The second instalment deals more specifically with gender issues and the movement #NiUnaMenos. Find more at: https://www.academia.edu/35953129/Dossier_Descolonizaciones_Inciertas_II_NiUnaMenos_Uncertain_Decolonizations_II_NiUnaMenos
The Power of Labelling, 2009
On repatriation. A work done at the Museum of World Culture, Goteborg 2009, on the collection Niñ... more On repatriation. A work done at the Museum of World Culture, Goteborg 2009, on the collection Niño Corin, a wealth of Bolivian archeological pieces bought by a wealthy Swedish collector in 1970. The report is relevant today over the discussion on the coloniality of the museum, what to do decoloniality about it, and the question of repatriation.
Mignolo, 2019
Icaza (Mexico/ The Netherlands) Patricia Kaersenhout (The Netherlands/Suriname) Alanna Lockward (... more Icaza (Mexico/ The Netherlands) Patricia Kaersenhout (The Netherlands/Suriname) Alanna Lockward (Dominican Republic/ Germany) Ovidiu Tichindeleanu (Rumania) Madina Tlostanova (Circassia/Sweden)