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The Center for Global Studies and the Humanities (CGSH) stands for putting institutions at the service of life rather than life at the service of institutions. This shift is the starting point of de-colonial thinking and doing the CGSH promotes.

Through the Center we aim to investigate the role of the Humanities in building the modern/colonial world, its place in imperial formations and imperial expansion. CGSH also promotes workshops, seminars, exhibitions, and and publications with other centers (INPUTS and NiNsee) around the world engaged in decolonial humanities. 

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    At the End of the University as We Know it
  • "African research matters written in orange an white writing on a blue background"
    Upcoming Lecture!
  • Five scholars from duke university arranged in two rows against a world-map backdrop in pale blue and beige pastel colors
    What Decolonization Means (clicking this link will take you away from this site)
  • Seminar Series from Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South Flyer
    New African Studies Seminar Series
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The Center is engaged in various projects that constitute a series of activities under a specific topic. Current projects include:

  • "Shifting the Geo-graphy and Bio-graphy of Knowledges" — an ongoing series organized around workshops exploring a crucial issue of de-colonial thinking and de-colonial humanities.
  • "Worlds & Knowledges Otherwise (WKO)" — a web dossier whose intent is to promote scholarly debate directly impinging on socio-economic, legal-political, and ethico-philosophical issues around the world.

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Faculty Books

Global Coloniality and The World Disorder: A Decolonial Take
Global Coloniality and The World Disorder: A Decolonial Take
Walter D. Mignolo
Reconstitución estética decolonial
Reconstitución estética decolonial
Pedro Pablo Gómez and Walter D. Mignolo (coauthors)
The Politics of Decolonial Investigations (on Decoloniality)
The Politics of Decolonial Investigations (on Decoloniality)
Walter Mignolo
The Haitians: A Decolonial History
The Haitians: A Decolonial History
Walter Mignolo (author of Foreward)
On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
Walter D. Mignolo (co-author)
The Darker Side of The Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, Colonization
The Darker Side of The Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, Colonization
Walter D. Mignolo
De la Hermenéutica y la Semiosis Colonial al Pensar Descolonial
De la Hermenéutica y la Semiosis Colonial al Pensar Descolonial
Walter D. Mignolo
L'idea di America Latina: Geostoria di una teoria decoloniale
L'idea di America Latina: Geostoria di una teoria decoloniale
Walter D. Mignolo
Capitalismo y geopolítica del conocimiento: El eurocentrismo y la filosofía de la liberación en el debate intelectual contemporáneo
Capitalismo y geopolítica del conocimiento: El eurocentrismo y la filosofía de la liberación en el debate intelectual contemporáneo
La désobéissance épistémique: Rhétorique de la modernité,  logique de la colonialité et grammaire de la décolonialité
La désobéissance épistémique: Rhétorique de la modernité, logique de la colonialité et grammaire de la décolonialité
Walter D. Mignolo
Arte y estética en la encrucijada descolonial II
Arte y estética en la encrucijada descolonial II
Una concepción descolonial del mundo: Conversaciones de francsico carballo con Walter Mignolo
Una concepción descolonial del mundo: Conversaciones de francsico carballo con Walter Mignolo
Trayectorias de re-existencia: ensayos en torno a la  colonialidad/decolonialidad del saber, el sentir y el creer
Trayectorias de re-existencia: ensayos en torno a la colonialidad/decolonialidad del saber, el sentir y el creer
Walter D. Mignolo, Pedro Pablo Gomez, Ed.
Trayectorias de re-existencia: ensayos en torno a la colonialidad / decolonialidad del saber, del sentir y el creer.
Trayectorias de re-existencia: ensayos en torno a la colonialidad / decolonialidad del saber, del sentir y el creer.
Pedro Pablo (editor) and Walter D. Mignolo (author)
Dezobedienta epistemica
Dezobedienta epistemica
Walter Mignolo
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Center for Global Studies and the Humanities

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Durham, NC 27708
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  • About
    • Selected Faculty Books
  • News
    • Interview with Walter Mignolo, Radio Papesse (2015)
  • Projects
    • Decolonial Aesthetics at Duke
    • The Decolonial Summer School
      • 2010 Edition
      • 2011 Edition
      • 2012 Edition
      • 2013 Edition
      • 2014 Edition
      • 2015 Edition
      • 2016 Edition
      • 2017 Edition
      • 2018 Edition
      • 2019 Edition
      • 2020 Edition
      • 2021 Edition
    • El Desprendimiento: Pensamiento Critico Y Opcion Descolonial
    • Esteticas Decoloniales / Decolonial Aesthetics Bogota
    • BE.BOP: Black Europe Body Politics
      • BE.BOP 2012
      • BE.BOP 2013
      • BE.BOP 2014
      • BE.BOP 2016
      • BE.BOP 2018
    • Shifting the Geo-Graphy and Bio-Graphy of Knowledge
    • Worlds & Knowledges Otherwise (WKO)
    • Dialogical Ethics and Critical Cosmopolitanism
  • People
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    • Steering Committees
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