Research Interests for Walter D Mignolo

Global Coloniality, Critical Cosmopolitanism, Modern/Colonial World System

Representative Publications

1. Walter Mignolo, The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options, Latin America Otherwise (October 2011), pp. 458, Duke University Press [ViewProduct.php] [abs]
2. Walter Mignolo (editor in collaboration with Arturo Escobar), Globalization and the De-Colonial Option, edited by Larry Grosbberg, Cultural Studies, vol. 21 no. 1/2 (March, 2007) [title~content=g776420754~db=all]
3. W. Mignolo, The Idea of Latin America (October, 2005), London, Blackwell, 2005
4. Walter D. Mignolo, Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (1999), Princeton: Princeton University Press
5. The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference, SAQ, vol. 101.1 (2003), pp. 57-96
6. Globalization and the Borders of Latinity, in The Latin American Perspectives on Globalization. Ethics, Politics and Alternative Visions, edited by Mario Saenz (2002), pp. 77-101, New York: Bowman and Littlefield
7. Globalization, Civilization Processes and the Relocation of Languages and Cultures, in The Cultures of Globalization, edited by F. Jameson and M. Miyoshi (1998), Durham: Duke University Press
8. Walter D. Mignolo, The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization (1995), Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press
9. W.D. Mignolo, Epistemischer Ungehorsam. Rhetorik der Moderne, Logik der Kolonialität und Grammatik der Dekolonialität, edited by Jens Katsner and Tom Waibel (2012), pp. 210, Verlag Turia + Kant, Vienna, Austria [html] [abs]
10. Elizabeth Hill Boone and Walter Mignolo (Eds), Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes, edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone and Walter D. Mignolo (1994), Durham, NC: Duke University Press (Reviews: 1) Serge Druzinski, L'Homme 141, January-March 1997; 2) Scott O'Mack, Anthropological Linguistics, 37/4, University of Chicago; 3) Monica Barnes, The Americas, 52/3, January 1996; 4) Paul F. Healy, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 20, 1995; 5) Theodore Hampe Martínez "Escrituras alternativas en América," El Comercio (Lima), 11, II, 1995; 6) Frances Karttunen, Hispanic America Historical Review, May 1995; 7) Eva Kalny, Latinamerika-Institut, Vienna, Social Anthropology, 3, 1995; 8) Marie-Areti Hers, Anales del Institutio de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Número 66, México 1995; 9) Teodoro Hampe Martínez, Revista de Indias, Departamento de Historia de América, Centro de Estudios Históricos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Número 204, Vol. LV, Mayo-Agosto 1995; 10) Cyprian Broodbank, Antiguity, 68/260, 1994; 11) Journal of Latin American Studies, 27, May 1995; 12) The British Bulletin, No. 91, October 1994; 13) Poetics Today, Spring 1994; 14) Ethnohistory, 41/3, Summer 1994; 15) Smoking Mirror, 1/3, July 22, 1994.)
11. with Madina Tlostanova, Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflections from Eurasia and the Americas (June 28, 2012), Ohio University Press, Columbus, Ohio [html]
12. Co-edited with Heriberto Cairo (Political Sciences, Universidad Complutense de madrid), Las vertientes americanas del pensamiento y el proyecto descolonial. (2008), Madrid: Trama Editorial, Madrid [Detail.aspx]
13. W.D. Mignolo, El vuelco de la razón: diferencia colonial y pensamiento fronterizo (November, 2011), pp. 182, Ediciones del Signo, Buenos Aires and Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ISBN 978-987-1074-95-2 [available here] [abs]
14. Walter Mignolo, Capitalismo y geopolitica del concimiento. El eurocentrismo y la filosofia de la liberacion en el debate intellectual contemporaneo., edited by Walter D. Mignolo (2001), Buenos Aires: Editorial del Signo/Duke University
15. Walter D. Mignolo, Loci of enunciation and imaginary constructions: The Case of (Latin) America, edited by Walter D. Mignolo, Special issue of Poetics Today, vol. I and II (1995)
16. W.D. Mignolo, De la hermenéutica y la semiosis colonial al pensar descolonial (2011), pp. 145, Abya Yala y Universidad Politecnica Salesiana, Quito, Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador (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..)
17. W.D. Mignolo, The idea of Latin America, Korean Translation (May, 2010), Editorial Greenbee, Seoul, South Korea [articleView.html]