Walter D. Mignolo

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Walter D. Mignolo

Walter D. Mignolo (born May 1, 1941 in Argentina) is an Argentine literary scholar and American university professor.

His academic career began as a lecturer from 1964 to 1966 at the National University of Córdoba in Argentina. In 1968 he worked at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in this city. In addition to his stay in France from 1973 to 1974 at the Université de Toulouse with a lectureship in the faculty for Iberian and Latin American Studies, he was also a visiting professor at Indiana University for the languages ​​Spanish and Portuguese. From 1975 to 1982 he was at the University of Michigan lecturer ( assistant professor ), 1982-1987 associate professor and from 1987 to 1992 Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature.

From 1994 to 1999 Mignolo was Professor and Chair of Romance Studies at Duke University , and since 2000 he has held the position of Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities ( John Hope Franklin Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies ) at the same university . In addition, since 1998 he has held a research professorship for Romance studies and cultural anthropology ("William H. Wannamaker Professor") at the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at this university.

Mignolo is also a freelance researcher at the Center for Indian Studies in South Africa (CISA) at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg and a consultant for the Vienna branch of the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute .

He is known for his criticism of Eurocentric historiography and has published the trilogy The Darker Side of the Renaissance (1995), Local Histories / Global Designs. Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledge, and Border Thinking (2000) and The Darker Side of Western Modernity (2011). In addition to Enrique Dussel , Edgardo Lander , Aníbal Quijano and other scientists, Mignolo belongs to the Latin American research group Modernidad / Colonialidad (M / C).

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  • The Idea of ​​Latin America . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford 2005, ISBN 978-1-4051-0086-1 .
  • Desobediencia epistémica. Retórica de la modernidad, lógica de la colonialidad y gramática de la descolonialidad . Ediciones del Signo, Buenos Aires 2010, ISBN 9789871074808
Walter D. Mignolo: Epistemic Disobedience: Rhetoric of Modernity, Logic of Coloniality and Grammar of Decoloniality . Turia + Kant Verlag, Vienna / Berlin 2019 (German translation: Jens Kastner, Tom Waibel), ISBN 978-3-85132-943-8
  • Caroline Levander, Walter Mignolo: The global south and world dis / order . Indiana University Press, Bloomington (IND) 2011 (Series: The global south , Vol. 5, No. 1, special edition) ISSN 1932-8648.
  • Madina Vladimirovna Tlostanova, Walter D. Mignolo: Learning to Unlearn. Decolonial Reflections from Eurasia and the Americas . Ohio State University Press, Columbus (OH) 2012, ISBN 0-8142-7053-0 .
  • Walter D. Mignolo, Arturo Escobar : Globalization and the Decolonial Option . Taylor and Francis, London 2013, ISBN 9780415549714 (print version).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Duke University: Walter D. Mignolo, Curriculum vitae . online at www.people.duke.edu (English).
  2. ^ BAK: Walter D. Mignolo. professor, Durham . Utrecht, at www.formerwest.org (English).
  3. ↑ See Walter Mignolo: Yes, we can: Non-European thinkers and philosophers. In: Al Jazeera , February 19, 2013.
  4. ↑ Grupo de Estudios Sobre Colonialidad: Modernidad / Colonialidad / Descolonialidad: Aclaraciones y replicas desde un proyecto epistémico en el horizonte del bicentenario . In: Pacarina del Sur, Vol. 10, No. 39 (April – June) 2019, Ciudad de México, online at www.pacarinadelsur.com (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Jisc: bibliographic evidence . (English).
  6. ↑ DNB: bibliographic evidence
  7. ^ GVK: bibliographical evidence.
  8. ↑ Jisc: bibliographic evidence . (English).
  9. ↑ Jisc: bibliographic evidence . (English).
personal data
SURNAME Mignolo, Walter D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mignolo, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1941