Hier wird ein zentraler Autor der lateinamerikanischen Dekolonialismus-Debatte vorgestellt. »Epistemischer Ungehorsam« ist ein umfassendes Projekt, das - wie jeder Ungehorsam - mit einer Infragestellung bestehender Regelsysteme und Begründungszusammenhänge beginnt: Walter D. Mignolo unterzieht das okzidentale Denken einer Hinterfragung. Das Epistemische seines Ungehorsams bezieht sich nicht auf die Philosophie alleine. Es setzt dem Okzidentalen insgesamt eine theoretische und zugleich praxisbezogene Option entgegen - die Dekolonialität. Kontexte und Begriffe dieses lateinamerikanischen Postkolonialismus werden in einer Einleitung von Jens Kastner und Tom Waibel erläutert.
An annotated bibliography of the research project modernity/coloniality/decoloniality after 13 years of its formation: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_modernidad/colonialidad; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloniality_of_power
Introduction The epistemic and political project known as modernity/(de)coloniality originated in South America, more specifically in the Andean region. To say “modernity and decoloniality” is to name in a colonial way the project that is being decolonized. Modernity/(de)coloniality are complex, heterogeneous, and historical structural concepts. They are entangled in ways shown by the work of groups introduced in this article. The key concept, however, is coloniality. Like many other similar and parallel projects (see the article on the Caribbean Philosophical Association), the key concept of coloniality calls into question the idea that knowledge is disembodied and independent of any specific geohistorical locations. The members involved in the project argue that such belief has been created and implanted by dominant principles of knowledge that originated in Europe since the Renaissance. In order to build a universal conception of knowledge, Western epistemology (from Christian theology to secular philosophy and science) has pretended that knowledge is independent of the geohistorical (Christian Europe) and biographical conditions (Christian white men living in Christian Europe) in which it is produced. As a result, Europe became the locus of epistemic enunciation, and the rest of the world became the object to be described and studied from the European (and, later on, the United States), perspective. This article concentrates on the overall profile of the project and on those members of the collective that, in the first stage, provided the foundational concepts and, in the second stage, expanded the base toward new horizons. We have entered a period in which universal assumptions about knowledge production are being displaced. In other words, knowledge, like capitalism, no longer comes from one center; rather, it is geopolitically distributed. That global distribution demanded a concept to account for it. Geopolitics of knowledge is a key concept in modernity, coloniality, and decoloniality.
A second edition with a new preface by the author http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9860.html
In this collection of four articles, the book explores the concept of colonial difference (as well as imperial difference) and argues that it is there where border thinking dwells. Consequently, the decolonial option found its existential and analytic niche as well as the energy to imagine and enact, collectively and globally, the visions of a pluriversal and non-capitalist future world order.
Description During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas, while building on the idea of Western civilization and modernity as the endpointS of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of modernity, a complex matrix of power that has been created and controlled by Western men and institutions from the Renaissance, when it was driven by Christian theology, through the late twentieth century and the dictates of neoliberalism. This cycle of coloniality is coming to an end. Two main forces are challenging Western leadership in the early twenty-first century. One of these, “dewesternization,” is an irreversible shift to the East in struggles over knowledge, economics, and politics. The second force is “decoloniality.” Mignolo explains that decoloniality requires delinking from the colonial matrix of power underlying Western modernity to imagine and build global futures in which human beings and the natural world are not exploited in the relentless quest for wealth accumulation.
Resumen Desde hace algún tiempo los académicos tuvieron como supuesto que el sujeto cognoscente en las disciplinas del saber es transparente, está apartado de lo que conoce y no es tocado por la configuración geopolítica de un mundo en donde las personas y las regiones mundiales son clasificadas racialmente. Hoy en día ese supuesto ya no se puede sostener, aunque todavía haya muchos que creen en él. En juego está el tema del racismo y la epistemología. Por ello, ante la generación de un racismo epistemológico contenido en la razón imperial moderna, que niega y subvaloriza a los sujetos y saberes no- 1 Traducción: Iván Jacobo Herrera (Cideci-Unitierra Chiapas). Texto original: “Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom”, en: Theory, Culture & Society 2009 (SAGE, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore), Vol. 26(7–8), pp.1–23. ∗ Profesor de Romance Studies and Literature en Duke University y Director del ‘Center for Global Studies and the Humanities’ (http://trinity.duke.edu/globalstudies). Sus publicaciones incluyen: The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization (1995; premiada con el ‘Catherine Singers Kovacs Prize’ por la Modern Languages Association), Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (2000) y The Idea of Latin America (2005; obra ganadora del reconocimiento ‘Frantz Fanon’ de la ‘Philosophical Caribbean Association’). Su próximo libro, el tercero de la trilogía con The Darker Side y Local Histories, será publicado por Duke University Press y se titula: The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options El presente artículo está basado en un capítulo de dicho libro. 8 occidentales, el desenganche y la decolonialidad política y epistémica se pone en primer plano, así como la instauración de conocimientos decoloniales, pasos necesarios para imaginar y construir sociedades no-imperiales/coloniales, democráticas y justas. Palabras claves: geopolítica del conocimiento, epistemología eurocentrada, opción decolonial, desobediencia epistémica, Decolonialidad política y del pensamiento.
Response to my critics of La Idea of Latin America, Blackwell, 2005 (Sp translation, La idea de América Latina, Gedisa, 2006)
Translation to Galego, the language of Galicia Spain, of an article published in Nepantla, titled "Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowledge: The Role of the Humanities in the Corporate University."
The American-Style University at Large: Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education, edited by Kathryn L. Kleypas and James McDougall, is an intervention into current discussions concerning the role of the contemporary American-style university in a global context. The editors approach the subject from their own experiences as professors at an American-style university in the Middle East. They pull together essays from an impressively diverse list of contributors which examine the various ways that American models of higher learning have become instituted around the world. The authors then explore ways that these new configurations help to define the university as a force that organizes, develops, and controls methods of education, knowledge, power, and culture.
Reprint of an article originally published in New Centennial Review, 2001, 1/2, 19-54
Translated from Spanish. Selections from the interview published in Bilboquet, 2007, http://bilboquet.es/B8/PAG/waltermignolo.html
This article is also printed in American Literature Journal (well shall i put it, onlilne or article in a journal?).
Originally it was the inaugural conference of the program in Postcolonial Studies, Centro de Estudios Sociales, Universidad de Coimbra, Portugal, delivered in Feb 2005;
This A CD-ROM with the proceeding of the CIMAM Annual Conference that can be obtained through the web address of the association, http://www.cimam.org
One of the articles included in the Spanish translation of Aimé Césaire. Discurso sobre el colonialismo. Ediciones Akal, Madrid, 2006
Critical commentary on Meera Nanda's book, Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism. London: Routledge, 2003.
The article is part of a series of publication and activities related to art, museum and aesthetics. For instance, the interview in MAG, in La Differenza, the exhibit i curated in Bogota and the article published in Calle 14, Revista de Arte.
The volume is a contribution to current research particularly in South America (Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico) on "(de) coloniality of seeing." Art and aesthetics are reconceptualized as both tools for tools the control of subjectivity as well as tools for decolonization of being.
This is 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 and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de-colonization of knowledge as an epistemological restitution with political and ethical implications. Epistemic decolonization, or de-coloniality, becomes the horizon to imagine and act toward global futures in which the notion of a political enemy is replaced by intercultural communication and towards an-other rationality that puts life first and that places institutions at its service, rather than the other way around. The volume is profoundly inter- and trans-disciplinary, with authors writing from many intellectual, transdisciplinary, and institutional spaces. This book was published as a special issue of Cultural Studies, http://www.routledge.com/books/Globalization-and-the-Decolonial-Option-isbn9780415549714;
La teoría política en la encrucijada descolonial Libro de próximo lanzamiento Nos ha llegado un adelanto de este libro ya pronto a salir por las calles de América. La edición, traducción y autoría es de nuestro estimado Alejandro De Oto junto a Sylvia Winter y Lewis Gordon, con prólogo de Walter Mignolo. http://dehistoriatrelew.blogspot.com/2009/07/la-teoria-politica-en-la-encrucijada.html Esta iniciativa está orientada a discutir la posibilidad de pensar de modo distinto al que nos induce la modernidad; ese modo es precisamente, descolonizador. Dice De Oto que “hace tiempo que el grupo de personas con las que trabajo, todas las del proyecto y de las cátedras, pero también con los amigos más allá de esos lugares y las que están en este libro piensan que se necesitan otras genealogías de lo que somos, de nuestras teorías políticas y culturales. Aquí hay un envite para todo ello tratando de articular algunas ideas sobre nuestras posibilidades en el presente a partir de lo que llamaría sin tapujo alguno, nuestros pensadores. En especial Frantz Fanon, la parte concurrente de Mariátegui en el Caribe como lo piensa Mignolo”. El libro se interna en cuestiones cruciales, como por ejemplo, los modos en que discutimos y pensamos el desarrollo, el estatuto de los condenados de las ontologías de la modernidad y otros despliegues. “No mucho más, ni menos, sólo el gusto de formar parte de una comunidad intelectual y vital vibrante, como lo es la que todos ustedes forman”, comenta el autor en su invitación.
One of the first dossier "On Decoloniality" that will be published in WKO.
An interview on dewesternization, decoloniality and the world order. A portion of the interview was reprinted in Social Sciences Weekly, http://sassinfo.com/shkxb/articleshow.jsp?dinji=231&artid=86129&sortid=492
An interview by Chris Mattison for the Advanced Institute of Cross Disciplinary Studies, reprinted in World Public Forum web page. The interviews were also reprinted in Critical Legal Thinking, http://criticallegalthinking.com/2012/05/02/delinking-decoloniality-dewesternization-interview-with-walter-mignolo-part-ii/
Interview about the bicentennial years in Latin America
Text distributed to the audience attending the lecture on the same title
3rd part of an interview published in the same journal. Links to the previous sections at the end of this interview.
