Walter Mignolo
Biographic Data
| ID | 408650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter Mignolo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter |
| FAMILY NAME | Mignolo |
| SIGNATURE | MIGNOLO W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University, US |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 85 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1204 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 85 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Aníbal Quijano: Foundational Essays on the Coloniality of Power
The Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano is widely considered to be a foundational figure of the decolonial perspective grounded in three basic concepts: coloniality, coloniality of power, and the colonial matrix of power. His decolonial theorizations of these three concepts have transformed the principles and assumptions of the very idea of knowledge, impacted the social sciences and humanities, and questioned the myth of rationality in natural s…
The Colonial Matrix of Power
The Politics of Decolonial Investigations
In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. Decolonial border thinking allows Mignolo to outline how the combination of the self-fashioned narratives of Western civilization and the hegemony of Eurocentric thought served to eradicate all knowledges in non-European languages and pra…
The Haitians: A Decolonial History
In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as the richest colony of the eighteenth century. Rather, it begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of the golden age of imperialism, created a sovereign society based on political imagination and a radical rejection of the colonial order, persisting even throu…
Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for Self-Representation
Colonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalize, pathologize, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os as well. While postcolonial studies of the past few decades have focused on how these ethnicities have been constructed by others, Disrupting Savagism reveals how each group, in turn, has actively attempted to create for itself a social and textual spac…
Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements
Gives historical background to late 20th century activism of Ecuador’s Native peoples, highlighting women’s role and the importance of cross-fertilization between class-based movements and ones based on race, ethnicity and identity
The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village
Prácticas otras de conocimiento(s): Entre crisis, entre guerras. Tomo I
Esta obra colegiada tiene un encuentro luminoso con la liberación de los pueblos oprimidos. Su destino está trazado: va a convertirse en una obra de referencia y lo será cada vez más en la medida en que los años pasen. Es una obra de nuestro tiempo, en lo que nuestro tiempo ofrece de más genuina esperanza a los pueblos oprimidos, de más articulada visión de los retos de la liberación, de más consistente diseño de los caminos sentipensantes de la …
Prácticas otras de conocimiento(s): Entre crisis, entre guerras. Tomo II
En este tomo II escribimos consultoras activistas, feministas pos y decoloniales, investigadores(as) activistas, activistas investigadores(as), así como profesores investigadores latinoamericanos(as), socialistas y latinoamericanistas. Cada uno(a), a nuestra manera, situamos y problematizamos nuestras prácticas de conocimiento, deteniéndonos unas en las dimensiones epistémicas, éticas, de género y de poder; otros, en las metodológicas, políticas,…
On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with local histories and perspectives of struggle, they illustrate the conceptual and analytic dynamism of decolonial ways of living and thinking, as wel…
Yes, We Can
At the end of 2012 at Al Jazeera, Santiago Zabala published a text about Zizek and the role of the philosopher nowadays. This publication motivated a critical response from the Iranian philosopher Hamid Dabashi, followed by Walter Mignolo's intervention. Both responses emphasized the pending task of decolonizing knowledge. Returning to the axes of that exchange, H. Dabashi wrote the recently published book Can non-Europeans think? The article pre…
Geopolitics of sensing and knowing: On (de)coloniality, border thinking, and epistemic disobedience
Decoloniality is, in the first place, a concept whose point of origination was the Third World. Better yet, it emerged at the very moment in which the three world division was collapsing and the celebration of the end of history and a new world order was emerging. The nature of its impact was similar to the impact produced by the introduction of the concept of “biopolitics”, whose point of origination was Europe. Like its European counterpart, “c…
Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking
The Politics and Sensibilities of Geohistorical Locations PART THREE: SUBALTERNITY AND THE COLONIAL DIFFERENCE: LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND KNOWLEDGES Other Tongue: Linguistics Maps, Literary Geographies, Cultural Landscapes Bilanguaging Love: Thinking in between Languages Globalization/Mundializacion: Civilizing Processes and the Relocation of Languages and Knowledges Afterword An Other Tongue, An Other Thinking, An Other Logic Bibliography Inde…
Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking
This book is an extended argument about the “coloniality” of power. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, this book points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. It explores the crucial notion of “colonial difference” in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which the book calls “border thin…
I Am Where I Think: Remapping the Order of Knowing
Decolonizing Western Epistemology / Building Decolonial Epistemologies
The essay by Walter Mignolo defines decolonialism and differentiates it from anticolonial and anticapitalist struggles framed within Western civilization. The two pillars of decolonial thinking are geopolitical epistemology, which responds to local needs, habits, and memories that emerge from the Third World, and biographic political epistemology, which works toward building states that are at the service of the people and not vice versa. The cha…
The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options
During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of Western modernity, a complex matrix of power that has been created and controlled by Western men and institutions from t…
Crossing Gazes and the Silence of the “Indians: Theodor De Bry and Guaman Poma de Ayala
Theodor De Bry and his family's volumes of the America series, as well as their entire collection of narratives and engravings depicting the newly “discovered” worlds of East and West, illustrate only half of the story: the world as seen by European eyes. This essay focuses on Guaman Poma de Ayala, a citizen of Tawantinsuyu living under Spanish rule in the viceroyalty of Peru, who finished his Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno by 1616 (during…
In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán
The Communal and the Decolonial
Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006
Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet's legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America's 'dirty war' dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence while building a loyal social base. Hero to some and criminal to others, the general cast a long shadow over Chile's future. Steve J. Stern recounts the full history of Chile's democratic reckoning, from…
Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América
Cosmopolitanism and the De-colonial Option
Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America
Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics
As both an idea and an institution, the family has been at the heart of Chicano/a cultural politics since the Mexican American civil rights movement emerged in the late 1960s. In Next of Kin, Richard T. Rodríguez explores the competing notions of la familia found in movement-inspired literature, film, video, music, painting, and other forms of cultural expression created by Chicano men. Drawing on cultural studies and feminist and queer theory, h…
Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking
This book is an extended argument about the “coloniality” of power. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, this book points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. It explores the crucial notion of “colonial difference” in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which the book calls “border thin…
The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia
fieldnotes
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader
Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico
Geopolitics of sensing and knowing: On (de)coloniality, border thinking, and epistemic disobedience
Decoloniality is, in the first place, a concept whose point of origination was the Third World. Better yet, it emerged at the very moment in which the three world division was collapsing and the celebration of the end of history and a new world order was emerging. The nature of its impact was similar to the impact produced by the introduction of the concept of “biopolitics”, whose point of origination was Europe. Like its European counterpart, “c…
Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes
Natural and Moral History of the Indies
The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, the classic work of New World history originally published by José de Acosta in 1590, is now available in the first new English translation to appear in several hundred years. A Spanish Jesuit, Acosta produced this account by drawing on his own observations as a missionary in Peru and Mexico, as well as from the writings of other missionaries, naturalists, and soldiers who explored the region during th…
Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973–1988
Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics
As both an idea and an institution, the family has been at the heart of Chicano/a cultural politics since the Mexican American civil rights movement emerged in the late 1960s. In Next of Kin, Richard T. Rodríguez explores the competing notions of la familia found in movement-inspired literature, film, video, music, painting, and other forms of cultural expression created by Chicano men. Drawing on cultural studies and feminist and queer theory, h…
Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World
Géopolitique de la connaissance, colonialité du pouvoir et différence coloniale
Coloniality at Large: The Western Hemisphere in the Colonial Horizon of Modernity
BEFORE THE COLD WAR, THE CLOSEST THE UNITED STATES HAD EVER COME to a permanent foreign policy was in our relationship with the nations of the Western Hemisphere. In 1823 the Monroe Doctrine proclaimed our determination to insulate the Western Hemisphere from the contests over the European balance of power, by force if necessary. And for nearly a century afterward, the causes of America's wars were to be found in the Western Hemisphere: in the wa…
Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism
The Spanish cleric Bartolome de Las Casas is a key figure in the history of Spain’s conquest of the Americas. Las Casas condemned the torture and murder of natives by the conquistadores in reports to the Spanish royal court and in tracts such as A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552). For his unrelenting denunciation of the colonialists’ atrocities, Las Casas has been revered as a noble protector of the Indians and as a pioneerin…
Cosmopolitanism and the De-colonial Option
Domination without Dominance: Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru
Offering an alternative narrative of the conquest of the Incas, Gonzalo Lamana both examines and shifts away from the colonial imprint that still permeates most accounts of the conquest. Lamana focuses on a key moment of transition: the years that bridged the first contact between Spanish conquistadores and Andean peoples in 1531 and the moment, around 1550, when a functioning colonial regime emerged. Using published accounts and array of archiva…
Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform
Enrique Mayer's *Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform* examines the complex and often contradictory outcomes of Peru's mid-20th-century agrarian reform. Moving beyond simplistic narratives of success or failure, Mayer presents a nuanced ethnographic account based on extensive fieldwork in the Mantaro Valley. He explores how the reform, intended to redistribute land and empower peasant communities, unfolded in diverse and unexpected ways, …
Crossing Gazes and the Silence of the “Indians: Theodor De Bry and Guaman Poma de Ayala
Theodor De Bry and his family's volumes of the America series, as well as their entire collection of narratives and engravings depicting the newly “discovered” worlds of East and West, illustrate only half of the story: the world as seen by European eyes. This essay focuses on Guaman Poma de Ayala, a citizen of Tawantinsuyu living under Spanish rule in the viceroyalty of Peru, who finished his Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno by 1616 (during…
Cambiando las éticas y las políticas del conocimiento: Lógica De La Colonialidad Y Postcolonialidad Imperial
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Occidentalización, Imperialismo, Globalización: Herencias Coloniales Y Teorías Postcoloniales
1.-El proceso de occidentalizaci6n a partir de finales del siglo xv Ieg6 a la historia cultural de lo que se conoce hoy como America Latina una preocupacion particular: hasta donde Latinoamerica es parte de Occidente; es el extremo occidente o un espacio donde lo occidental es lo extra-io frente a los legados de las culturas Amerindias y Africanas.El sentimiento de pertenecer o no a Occidente, de pertenecer mis o menos, varia segin las regiones c…
Intervenciones decoloniales: Una Breve Introducción
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes
The Politics of Decolonial Investigations
In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. Decolonial border thinking allows Mignolo to outline how the combination of the self-fashioned narratives of Western civilization and the hegemony of Eurocentric thought served to eradicate all knowledges in non-European languages and pra…
Los Estudios Culturales: Geopolítica Del Conocimiento Y Exigencias/Necesidades Institucionales
Tres meses antes de la
Posoccidentalismo: Las Epistemologías Fronterizas Y El Dilema De Los Estudios (Latinoamericanos) De Área (1996)
Salvador y Minais Gerais), la acogida fue más favorable.Indirectamente, este artículo es una continuación de la conversación con Santiago Castro-Gómez por correo electrónico, que se concretó luego en un capítulo de un libro (Castro-Gómez 1996); de forma interrumpida (por carta, fax y correo electrónico) en los dos últimos años, con Roberto Fernández Retamar.En Duke es un diálogo continuado con Alberto Moreiras y, en particular, con dos de sus últ…
Hermenéutica de la democracia: El Pensamiento De Los Límites Y La Diferencia Colonial
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Julia Kristeva/Cinematographic Semiotic Practice
La poétique et les changements littéraire
La marquesa de Yolombo
Elementos para una teoría del texto literario
Elementos para una teoria del texto literario
Debate
Debate
Hugo Achugar, Josefina Ludmer, Antonio Cornejo Polar, Jaime Concha, , Ileana Rodriguez, Jean Franco, Walter Mignolo, Beatriz Pastor, Maryssa Navarro, Adolfo Prieto, Debate, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año 17, No. 33 (1991), pp. 35-47
Debate
Debate
Beatriz Pastor, Nelson Osorio, Adolfo Prieto, Hugo Achugar, Juan Corradi, , Josefina Ludmer, Walter Mignolo, David Lagmanovich, Jaime Concha, Leticia Reyes, Debate, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año 17, No. 33 (1991), pp. 137-150
Writing without words: Alternative literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes
"This interdisciplinary collection of articles focuses on pictorial and iconic systems of the Maya, Mixtec, Aztec, and Inca, and the social contexts of writing during the colonial period, to challenge western conceptualizations of art, writing and literacy. The final papers offer stimulating discussions of interactions between European and indigenous writing systems"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57
Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes
Critica, historia y politica cultural: Agendas para la proxima decada
Occidentalización, Imperialismo, Globalización: Herencias Coloniales Y Teorías Postcoloniales
1.-El proceso de occidentalizaci6n a partir de finales del siglo xv Ieg6 a la historia cultural de lo que se conoce hoy como America Latina una preocupacion particular: hasta donde Latinoamerica es parte de Occidente; es el extremo occidente o un espacio donde lo occidental es lo extra-io frente a los legados de las culturas Amerindias y Africanas.El sentimiento de pertenecer o no a Occidente, de pertenecer mis o menos, varia segin las regiones c…
Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840
Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes
The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation
Searching for the Living among the DeadThe memory of the living gives life to the dead.-Inscription above the entrance to Quetzaltenango's general cemetery, 1894 A Walk in the Cemetery It is easy to imagine the city of Quetzaltenango's sprawling general cemetery as a metaphor for Guatemalan society.Shaded by bowers of pepper trees, elaborate mausoleums of prominent Ladino families line the main path at the front of the graveyard.∞ Gated enclaves …
Labors Appropriate to Their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930
A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica
This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery in Britain’s colonies. James Williams, an eighteen-year-old Jamaican “apprentice” (former slave), came to Britain in 1837 at the instigation of the abolitionist Joseph Sturge. The Narrative he produced there, one of very few autobiographical texts by Caribbean slaves or former slaves, became one of t…
The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945
Images at War: Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)
The Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis
PART 1. Masks: 1. In Search of a Subject: Latin American Intellectuals at Century's End. 2. The Spectacle of "Difference" -- PART 2. Maps: 3. Gender Traffic on the North/South Horizon. 4. Bodies in Transit: Travel, Translation, and Sexuality -- PART 3. Markets: 5. The Politics of the Text: Experience, Representation, and the Return of lo popular. 6. From Museum to Street: Poetry for the New Millennium
Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil
Maxakali Creation StoryLong ago, in the time of the ancient Maxakali, Topar, the creator, gave the Maxakali an otter.Topar said, ''This otter is to help you fish so that you always have something to eat.But remember, you must always give the three biggest fish to the otter.You are welcome to all of the rest.You may fill your sacks full of the little fish so that the whole community can eat, so that no one goes hungry.The three biggest fish, howev…
Labors Appropriate to Their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900-1930 (Latin America Otherwise)
Géopolitique de la connaissance, colonialité du pouvoir et différence coloniale
Coloniality at Large: The Western Hemisphere in the Colonial Horizon of Modernity
BEFORE THE COLD WAR, THE CLOSEST THE UNITED STATES HAD EVER COME to a permanent foreign policy was in our relationship with the nations of the Western Hemisphere. In 1823 the Monroe Doctrine proclaimed our determination to insulate the Western Hemisphere from the contests over the European balance of power, by force if necessary. And for nearly a century afterward, the causes of America's wars were to be found in the Western Hemisphere: in the wa…
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