Global Disorder and Global Coloniality: A Decolonial Take
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2024-01-01
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In 2015 a panel was held based around a couple of key questions: what the reasons or the causes underlying the current global disorder are, and what are the venues to overcome it. As part of the panel, the author of the present article argued that the underlying causes of the prevailing chaos are, on one hand, the persistence of global coloniality and, on the other, the fact that since around the year 2000 we have been witnessing the economic and political reemergence of cultures and civilizations that have historically been undermined by global coloniality. This article pushes further on those preliminary answers to the above two questions and relates them to the present world disorder ten years later. The chaos has intensified. We, on this planet, are at the crucial historical moment in which Western unipolar political, economic, and cultural hegemonic global order is declining, while a multipolar economic and political world order is emerging in interstate relations and a pluriverse cultural horizon is emerging in the public sphere globally.
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Mignolo, WD (2024). Global Disorder and Global Coloniality: A Decolonial Take. Prism, 21(2). pp. 482–498. 10.1215/25783491-11825685 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/33249.
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Walter D. Mignolo
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Mignolo’s research and teaching have been devoted, in the past 30 years, to understanding and unraveling the historical foundation of the modern/colonial world system and imaginary since 1500. In his research, the modern/colonial world system and imaginary is tantamount with the historical foundation of Western Civilization and its expansion around the globe. His research stands on four basic premises: a) there is no world-system before 1500 and the integration of America in the Western Christian (European) imaginary; b) the world-system generated the idea of “newness” (the New World) and of modernity and c) there is no modernity without coloniality—coloniality is constitutive no derivative of modernity; d) the modern/colonial imaginary was mounted and maintained on the invention of the Human and Humanity that provided the point of reference for the invention of racism and sexism together with the invention of nature.
Briefly stated, Mignolo’s research has been and continues to be devoted to exposing modernity/coloniality as a machine that generates and maintains un-justices and to exploring decolonial ways of delinking from the modernity/coloniality. Among his books related to these topics are: The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization (1995), which was translated into Chinese and Spanish in 2015 will receive a Turkish translation shortly; Delinking: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality, and the Grammar of Decoloniality (2007), translated into German, French, Swedish, Rumanian, and Spanish; Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking (2000), translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Korean; and Turkish in progress); and The Idea of Latin America (2006), translated into Spanish, Korean and Italian. On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analysis, Praxis, co-authored with Catherine Walsh, was published in 2018 (with an Italian translation in progress) and in 2021 he published The Politics of Decolonial Investigations.
The political dimension of his work, in the past fifteen years has been increasingly devoted to the public sphere where he has worked with artists, curators, and journalists, to write op-eds, give finterviews (in English and Spanish), and to co-organize and co-teach summer schools in Middelburg, Bremen, UNC, and Duke. He also delivers workshops for faculty and graduate students in South and Central America, Asia, and Europe.
Mignolo was awarded the Katherine Singer Kovaks prize (MLA) for The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization (1996) and the Frantz Fanon Prize by the Caribbean Philosophical Association for The Idea of Latin America (2006). His work has been translated into German, Italian, French, Swedish, Rumanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, and Korean. He is an Honorary Research Associate for CISA (Center for Indian Studies in South Africa) of Wits University at Johannesburg. Recently, he joined the Dialogue of Civilizations (DOC) Program Council as a senior adviser. Additionally, he received a Doctor Honoris Causa Degree (2016) from the National University of Buenos Aires in Argentina (http://novedades.filo.uba.ar/novedades/entrega-del-diploma-doctor-honoris-causa-walter-mignolo) and an Honorary Degree (2018) from the University of London-Goldsmith (https://www.gold.ac.uk/honorands/walter-d-mignolo/).
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