Walter Mignolo is one of the leading researchers in the field of cultural studies, especially in the postcolonial theory and the issue of choice-colonial Latin America. is director of Center for Global Studies and the Humanities , Duke University, United States, and coeditor of Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise , a Web dossier with access to full text articles of interest in these issues. As for the problems that arise for our Latin American peoples or debate regarding the projects of the "knowledge society", one of the claims (with hope) that makes the book Mignolo The idea of \u200b\u200bLatin America is:
"anti-colonial resistance and especially decolonial and utopian projects have existed since the early days of English rule in Mexico and the Andean region. Knowledge not only accumulates in Europe and the United States, where it spread throughout the world, but produced, accumulated and used critically everywhere. Anyway, the gathering of knowledge is more difficult for financially weak companies, therefore, lack of technology (books, libraries, newspapers, Internet, CD), and thus preserves the imperial power of knowledge to the detriment of other kinds of knowledge. However, there is already the idea that not everything is necessarily hegemonic dominance and hegemony, as the stock market, is diversifying "(p. 137).
Surfing the Web I found some sites and articles of interest to know the thinking of Mignolo:
To begin with, their own site with a blog, the list of publications, Mignolo class materials on the Web: http://waltermignolo.com/
http://awkakuru.blogspot.com/2009/05/el-pensamiento-descolonial-walter.html
Some of his books can be reviewed at Google Books .
Interview Catherine Walsh makes Mignolo:
The Geopolitics of Knowledge and coloniality of power
http://www.revistapolis.cl/4/wal.pdf
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