Publications [#242957] of Walter D. Mignolo

Articles in a Journal

1. Mignolo, WD, The Global South and world dis/order, Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 67 no. 2 (January, 2011), pp. 165-188, University of Chicago Press, ISSN 0091-7710 [doi]
   (last updated on 2025/06/24)

   Abstract:
   The "Global South" is a fashionable expression. It appears in academic journals, in the title of university academic centers, among activists around the world. I argue that from the perspective of capitalism and expansion of Western values, the "Global South" is the location to be developed economically and liberated from non-democratic regimes. From the perspective of the emerging political society, the "Global South" is where liberation from Western democratic rhetoric to justify economic takeover and cultural management is taking place. I show how the very concept of "Global South" came about, replacing that of the "Third World" after the collapse of the Soviet Union. I end the article by mapping five trajectories, discernible in the present, that are orienting global futures and I further argue that they cannot be understood properly without understanding the economic, political, and epistemic conflict that make the "Global South" a current location of global conflicts. Copyright © by The University of New Mexico.