Theorist
Walter Mignolo
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Details
- Nationality
- Argentine
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- associated with Arturo Escobar
- associated with Decolonial / Pluriversal Design
- proposed Border Thinking / Delinking / Pluriversality
- proposed Decolonial critique of flat ontology
- associated with Epistemologies of the South
- influenced Designing with Country
- critiqued Bruno Latour
- authored On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
- authored The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options
Referenced by
- Esra Akcan relates to
Sources
- Duke University Press. n.d.. https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-darker-side-of-western-modernity.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Walter Mignolo." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/walter-mignolo/. Accessed September 1, 2026.