Walter Mignolo Quotes on Politics
Walter Mignolo's The Darker Side of the Renaissance (1995) and the trilogy Local Histories/Global Designs (2000), The Idea of Latin America (2005), and The Darker Side of Western Modernity (2011) develop the most influential contemporary statement of the decolonial option. The principal thesis is that the conventional periodization of European modernity — Renaissance, Enlightenment, modern, postmodern — systematically obscures the constitutive role of colonization in the formation of the modern world-system, and that the genuine philosophical task is the epistemic decolonization that recovers the suppressed knowledges of the colonized territories and recognizes the geopolitical situatedness of all knowledge production. The framework engages closely with Anibal Quijano's coloniality of power, Enrique Dussel's philosophy of liberation, and the broader Latin American decolonial collective.
Quotes
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Attributed to Walter Mignolo:
“Modernity and coloniality are two sides of the same coin.”
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Attributed to Walter Mignolo:
“Border thinking is thinking from the wound of difference.”
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Attributed to Walter Mignolo:
“The pluriverse is a world in which many worlds fit.”
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Attributed to Walter Mignolo:
“Knowledge has a geography; it does not float free of where it was made.”