Walter D Mignolo, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies; Professor of Spanish and Cultural Anthropology

Office Location:	125B Friedl Building
Office Phone:	919-668-1949
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://ca-www.aas.duke.edu/~wmignolo
Office Hours:	By appointment

Education:

• PhD, Semiotics and Literary Theory (Doctorat de Troisiéme Cycle) École des Hautes Études (EPHE) as its VI Section: Sciences Économiques et Sociales, Paris, France 1974
• Licenciatura in Philosophy and Literature--Filosofía y Letras Universidad de Córdoba 1968

Specialties:

Spanish

Decolonial and Post-colonial Studies

Comparative Philosophy

Globalization, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity

Latin American Studies

Comparative Studies: Translation, Travel Narratives, Trans-Culturality

Cultural Studies

Critical Theory

Critical Theory, Philosophy

Early Modern

Modern and Contemporary

Latin-American Studies

Caribbean Studies

Research Interests:

Global Coloniality, Critical Cosmopolitanism, Modern/Colonial World System

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Walter Mignolo. The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options. Latin America Otherwise Duke University Press, October 2011. 458 pp. [ViewProduct.php]  [abs]
2. Walter Mignolo (editor in collaboration with Arturo Escobar). Globalization and the De-Colonial Option. Cultural Studies  vol. 21 no. 1/2 ( March, 2007.). [title~content=g776420754~db=all]
3. W. Mignolo. The Idea of Latin America. London, Blackwell, 2005, October, 2005.
4. Walter D. Mignolo. Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Translated into Portuguese in 2004
5. "The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference." SAQ  vol. 101.1 ( 2003): 57-96.
6. "Globalization and the Borders of Latinity." The Latin American Perspectives on Globalization. Ethics, Politics and Alternative Visions. Edited by Mario Saenz.  (2002): 77-101.
7. "Globalization, Civilization Processes and the Relocation of Languages and Cultures." The Cultures of Globalization. Edited by F. Jameson and M. Miyoshi.  ( 1998).
8. Walter D. Mignolo. The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995.
9. W.D. Mignolo. Epistemischer Ungehorsam. Rhetorik der Moderne, Logik der Kolonialität und Grammatik der Dekolonialität. Edited by Jens Katsner and Tom Waibel. Verlag Turia + Kant, 2012. 210 pp. Translation into German of "Desobediencia Epistemica", published by Editorial del Signo, Buenos Aires, 2010. [html]  [abs]
10. Elizabeth Hill Boone and Walter Mignolo (Eds). Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes.   ( 1994.). (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. Ohio University Press, June 28, 2012. [html]
12. Co-edited with Heriberto Cairo (Political Sciences, Universidad Complutense de madrid). Las vertientes americanas del pensamiento y el proyecto descolonial..   ( 2008.). [Detail.aspx]
13. W.D. Mignolo. El vuelco de la razón: diferencia colonial y pensamiento fronterizo. Ediciones del Signo, Buenos Aires and Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University, November, 2011. 182 pp. [available here]  [abs]
14. Walter Mignolo. Capitalismo y geopolitica del concimiento. El eurocentrismo y la filosofia de la liberacion en el debate intellectual contemporaneo..   ( 2001.).
15. Walter D. Mignolo. Loci of enunciation and imaginary constructions: The Case of (Latin) America. Special issue of Poetics Today  vol. I and II ( 1995.).
16. W.D. Mignolo. De la hermenéutica y la semiosis colonial al pensar descolonial. Abya Yala y Universidad Politecnica Salesiana, Quito, Ecuador, 2011. 145 pp. (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. Editorial Greenbee, May, 2010. [articleView.html]

Walter D. Mignolo received his Doctorat de 3ème Cycle from the École des Hautes Études, Paris, in 1974. He has taught at the Université de Toulouse, Indiana University, and the University of Michigan. Among his books on textual and literary theories are Elementos para una teoría del texto literario (Barcelona, 1978) and Teoría del texto e interpretación de textos (Mexico, 1986). His current research focuses on global coloniality and the history of capitalism. His most recent book, Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (Princeton U.P., 2000). He edited with an introduction Capitalismo y Geopolitica del Conocimiento: la Filosofia de la Liberacion en el Debate Intelectual Contemporaneo (Buenos Aires, 2001). His previous book, The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization (1995), was awarded the Katherine Singers Kovac Prize by the Modern Language Association. He co-edited with Elizabeth Hill Boone, Writing without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamérica and the Andes (1994) with contributions from art historians, anthropologists, historians and cultural critics. He is founder and co-editor of Disposition (The University of Michigan) and co-founder and co-editor of Nepantla: Views from South, a journal published by Duke University Press. He has published in Comparative Studies in Society and History, L'Homme, Colonial Latin American Review, South Atlantic Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, Hispanic Issues, Poetics Today, Public Culture, Latin American Cultural Studies, etc.