Walter Mignolo

Born	May 1, 1941(1941-05-01) Corral de Bustos, Argentina
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Walter D. Mignolo (1941, Corral de Bustos, Argentina) is a semiotician (École des Hautes Études) and professor at Duke University, who has published extensively on semiotics and literary theory, and worked on different aspects of the modern and colonial world, exploring concepts such as global coloniality, the geopolitics of knowledge, transmodernity, Border-Thinking, pluriversality, decoloniality, and decolonial aesthetics.

Works

Books

• Elementos para una teoría del texto literario, Barcelona: Crítica, 1978, 383 pp, ARG. (Spanish)

• Literatura fantástica y realismo maravilloso, Madrid: La Muralla, 1983, 50 pp. (Spanish)

• Textos, modelos y metáforas, Veracruz, MX: Universidad Veracruzana, 1984, 268 pp. (Spanish)

• Teoría del texto e interpretación de textos, México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1986, 298 pp. (Spanish)

• editor, with Elizabeth H. Boone, Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes, Durham: Duke University Press, 1994, viii+324 pp. Review: Restall (Ethnohistory). (English)

• The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, Colonization, University of Michigan Press, 1995, 426 pp; 2nd ed., 2003, xxii+463 pp. [1]. Reviews: Ortiz de Montellano (Americas), Nayar (J Am Folklore), Hulme (J Latin Am Cult Stud), Grafton (NY Rev of Books). (English)
  • El lado más oscuro del renacimiento: alfabetización, territorialidad y colonización, Popayán, CO: Editorial Universidad del Cauca, trans. Cristóbal Gnecco, 2016. (Spanish)
  • Wen yi fu xing de yin an mian: Shi zi jiao yu, di yu xing yu zhi min hua [文艺复兴的隐暗面: 识字教育, 地域性与殖民化], trans. Ran Wei, Beijing: Bei jing da xue chu ban she, 2016, 461 pp. (Chinese)

• Local Histories / Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking, Princeton University Press, 1999, xix+371 pp. (English)
  • Historias locales / disenos globales: colonialidad, conocimientos subalternos y pensamiento fronterizo, Madrid: Akal, 2003, 452 pp. (Spanish)
  • Histórias locais / projetos globais: colonialidade, saberes subalternos e pensamento liminar, trans. Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira, Belo Horizonte: UFMG, 2003, 505 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • 로컬 히스토리/글로벌 디자인: 식민주의성, 서발턴 지식, 그리고 경계사유, trans. 이성훈, Seoul: 에코리브르, 2013, 653 pp. (Korean)

• editor, Capitalismo y geopolítica del conocimiento: el eurocentrismo y la filosofia de la liberación en el debate intelectual contemporaneo, Buenos Aires: Del Signo, 2001; 2nd ed., 2014, 296 pp. [2] (Spanish)

• editor, with Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee Dube, Modernidades coloniales: otros pasados, historias presentes, México: El Colegio de México, 2004, 306 pp. (Spanish)

• The Idea of Latin America, Wiley-Blackwell, 2005, xx+198 pp. Reviews: Shaw (Mester), Salvatore (A Contracorriente). (English)
  • La idea de América Latina: la herida colonial y la opción decolonial, trans. Silvia Jawerbaum and Julieta Barba, Barcelona: Gedisa, 2007, 241 pp. (Spanish)
  • 라틴아메리카, 만들어진 대륙: 식민적 상처와 탈식민적 전환, trans. 김은중, 그린비, 2010, 304 pp. [3] (Korean)
  • L'idea di America Latina: geostoria di una teoria decoloniale, trans. Flavio Fiorani, Milan: Mimesis, 2013, 224 pp. (Italian)

• with Catherine Walsh and Alvaro Garcia Linera, Interculturalidad, descolonización del Estado y del conocimiento, intro. Walter Mignolo, Buenos Aires: Del Signo, 2006, 128 pp, 123 pp. [4] (Spanish)

• Descolonialidad del ser y del saber, Buenos Aires: Del Signo, 2006, 115 pp. [5] (Spanish)

• "Delinking: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality and the Grammar of De-Coloniality", Cultural Studies 21:2, Mar/May 2007, pp 449-514. (English)
  • Desobediencia epistémica: retórica de la modernidad, lógica de la colonialidad y gramática de la descolonialidad, Buenos Aires: Del Signo, 2010; 2nd ed., 2014, 104 pp. Reviews: Panotto (Postcol Net), Caamaño (Alpha), Martinez Peria (R Hisp Filosófico), Peressotti (Cardinalis). [6] [7] (Spanish)
  • Epistemischer Ungehorsam Rhetorik der Moderne, Logik der Kolonialität und Grammatik der Dekolonialität, trans. Jens Kastner and Tom Waibel, Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2012, 206 pp. [8] (German)
  • Avlänkning, trans. Patricia Lorenzoni, Hägersten: Tankekraft, 2014, 175 pp. [9] (Swedish)
  • La désobéissance épistémique: rhétorique de la modernité, logique de la colonialité et grammaire de la décolonialité, trans. Yasmine Jouhari and Marc Maesschalck, Peter Lang, 2015, 185 pp. [10] (French)
  • Dezobedienţa epistemică: retorica modernităţii, logica colonialităţii şi gramatica decolonialităţii, trans. Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Cluj: Idea Design & Print, 2015, 135 pp. [11] (Romanian)

• editor, with Margaret R. Greer and Maureen Quilligan, Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires, University of Chicago Press, 2008, vii+478 pp. Publisher. Reviews: Blakely (H-Soz-u-Kult), Peirce (Am Hist Rev). (English)

• editor, Género y descolonialidad, Buenos Aires: Del Signo, 2008; 2nd ed., 2014, 94 pp. [12] (Spanish)

• editor, La teoría política en la encrucijada descolonial, Buenos Aires: Del Signo, 2009, 162 pp. [13] (Spanish)

• editor, with Heriberto Caira, Las vertientes americanas del pensamiento y el proyecto des-colonias, Madrid: Trama, 2009, 272 pp. (Spanish)

• editor, with Arturo Escobar, Globalization and the Decolonial Option, London/New York: Routledge, 2009, 412 pp. 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. First published as a special issue of Cultural Studies (21:2-3). Publisher. Review: Merino (Sociology). (English)

• The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options, Durham: Duke University Press, 2011, xxxvii+408 pp. [14]. Reviews: Castro-Klarén (MLN), Chatterjee (Am Ethnologist). (English)
  • Seogu geundaeseong ui eoduun imyeon [서구 근대성의 어두운 이면: 전 지구적 미래들과 탈식민적 선택들], Seoul: Hyeonamsa, 2018. (Korean)

• El vuelco de la razón: diferencia colonial y pensamiento fronterizo, Buenos Aires: Del Signo, 2011, 189 pp; 2nd ed., 2019, 208 pp. [15] (Spanish)

• De la hermenéutica y la semiosis colonial al pensar descolonial, Quito: Abya-Yala, 2011, 151 pp; 2nd ed., 2013. [16] (Spanish)

• with Madina V. Tlostanova, Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflections from Eurasia and the Americas, Ohio State University Press, 2012, vii+281 pp. (English)

• editor, with Pedro Pablo Gómez, Estéticas y opción decolonial, Bogotá: Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, 2012, 303 pp. (Spanish)

• editor, with Pedro Pablo Gómez, Estéticas decoloniales, Bogotá: Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, 2012, 92 pp. Exh. catalogue. Review: Belenguer (Otros logos). (Spanish)

• Habitar la frontera: sentir y pensar la descolonialidad (Antología, 1999-2014), eds. Francisco Carballo and Luis Alfonso Herrera Robles, Barcelona: CIDOB, and Chihuahua: UACJ, 2015, 505 pp. Publisher. (Spanish)

• with Catherine Walsh, On Decoloniality: Concept, Analytics, Praxis, Durham: Duke University Press, 2018, xiii+291 pp. (English)

Journal issues

• editor, with Cedomil Goić, Dispositio 28-29: "Literature and Historiography in the New World", University of Michigan, 1986, 232 pp. (English)
• editor, with Madina Tlostanova, South Atlantic Quarterly 105(3): "Double Critique: Knowledges and Scholars at Risk in Post-Soviet Societies", Jul 2006, iv+182 pp. [17] (English)
• editor, Cultural Studies 21(2-3): "Globalization and the De-Colonial Option", 2007. Introduction. Subscription access. Published as a book (2009). (English)
• editor, with Rolando Vazquez, "Decolonial AestheSis", Social Text Online, Jul 2013. Dossier. (English)

Papers, essays

• "The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Colonization and the Discontinuity of the Classical Tradition", Renaissance Quarterly 45:4, University of Chicago Press, Winter 1992, pp 808-828. (English)

• "Coloniality of Power and Subalternity" in The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader, Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. (English)

• "The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference", South Atlantic Quarterly 101:1, Winter 2002, pp 57-96. (English)

• "Islamophobia/Hispanophobia: The (Re) Configuration of the Racial Imperial/Colonial Matrix", Human Architecture 5:1, 2006. (English)

• "De-Linking: Don Quixote, Globalization and the Colonies", Macalester International 17:1, 2006, pp 3-35. (English)

• "La opción descolonial", Letral 1, 2008. (Spanish)

• "Dispensable and Bare Lives: Coloniality and the Hidden Political/Economic Agenda of Modernity", Human Architecture 7:2, 2009. (English)

• with Madina Tlostanova, "Global Coloniality and the Decolonial Option", Kult 6: "Epistemologies of Transformation: The Latin American Decolonial Option and its Ramifications", Roskilde University, Fall 2009, pp 130-147. (English)

• "Coloniality: The Darker Side of Modernity", in Modernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, Barcelona: MACBA, 2009, pp 39-49. [18] (English)
  • "La colonialidad: la cara oculta de la modernidad", in Modernologías. Artistas contemporáneos investigan la modernidad y el modernismo, Barcelona: MACBA, 2009, pp 39-49. [19] (Spanish)

• "Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom", Theory, Culture & Society 26:7-8, 2009, pp 1-23. (English)
  • "Desobediência epistêmica: a opção descolonial e o significado de identidade em política", trans. Ângela Lopes Norte, Revista Gragoatá 22:1, 2007, pp 11-41; repr., Cadernos de Letras da UFF 34, 2008, pp 287-324. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • "Desobediencia epistémica (II), pensamiento independiente y libertad de-colonial", trans. Iván Jacobo Herrera, Otros logos 1:1, Neuquén, AR, Dec 2010, pp 8-49. (Spanish)

• "Aiesthesis decolonial", Calle 14 4(4): "Arte y cultura", ed. Pablo Pedro Gómez, Bogotá, Mar 2010, pp 10-25, PDF. (Spanish)

• signatory, "Decolonial Aesthetics (I)", TDI+Transnational Decolonial Institute, 22 May 2011. Manifesto. Signed by Alanna Lockward, Rolando Vásquez, Teresa María Díaz Nerio, Marina Gržinić, Michelle Eistrup, Tanja Ostojić, Dalída María Benfield, Raúl Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet, Pedro Lasch, Nelson Maldonado Torres, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Hong-An Truong, Guo-Juin Hong, Miguel Rojas-Sotelo and Walter Mignolo. (English)
  • "Estetica decolonialæ (I). Un argument ca manifest", IDEA 39, Cluj: IDEA, 2011, pp 89-91. (Romanian)
  • "Estética(s) de/descoloniale(s) (I)", trans. Laura Judit Alegre, c.2016. [20] (Spanish)
  • "Estética Descolonial", contramare.net, 7 Jun 2017; repr. in Cultura: Jornal Angolano de Artes e Letras 152, Jan 2018, 9-11. (Portuguese)

• "Geopolitics of Sensing and Knowing: On (De)Coloniality, Border Thinking, and Epistemic Disobedience", transversal 9, Vienna: eipcp, 2011; repr., Confero 1:1, 2013, pp 129-150. (English)
  • "Geopolitik des Wahrnehmens und Erkennens. (De)Kolonialität, Grenzdenken und epistemischer Ungehorsam", trans. Tom Waibel, transversal 9, Vienna: eipcp, 2011. (German)
  • "Geopolítica de la sensibilidad y del conocimiento. Sobre (de)colonialidad, pensamiento fronterizo y desobediencia epistémica", trans. Marcelo Expósito, transversal 9, Vienna: eipcp, 2011. (Spanish)

• "Epistemic Disobedience and the Decolonial Option: A Manifesto", Transmodernity, Fall 2011, pp 44-66. (English)

• "From 'Human Rights' to 'Life Rights'", ch 9 in The Meanings of Rights: The Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights, eds. Costas Douzinas and Conor Gearty, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp 161-180. (English)

• "Decolonial Body-Geo-Politics At Large", forew. in Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions, eds. Sandeep Bakshi, Suhraiya Jivraj, and Silvia Posocco, Counterpress, 2016. (English)

Conversations, interviews

• Elena Delgado, Rolando J. Romero, "Local Histories and Global Designs: An Interview with Walter Mignolo", Discourse 22:3, Fall 2000, pp 7-33. (English)
• with Francisco Carballo, Una concepción descolonial del mundo: conversaciones de Francisco Carballo y Walter Mignolo, Buenos Aires: Del Signo, 2014, 158 pp. [21] (Spanish)
• Aïcha Diallo, "Decolonial Aesthetics/Aesthesis has Become a Connector Across the Continents. In Conversation with Walter Mignolo", C& América Latina, 8 Mar 2018. (English)
  • "La estética/estesia decolonial se ha convertido a un conector entre los continentes. Charla con Walter Mignolo", trans. Nicolás Gelormini, C& América Latina, 8 Mar 2018. (Spanish)
  • "A estética/estesia decolonial tornou-se um conector transversal entre os continentes. Conversa com Walter Mignolo", trans. Heitor Augusto, C& América Latina, 8 Mar 2018. (Portuguese)

Links

• Personal website