Globalization and the Decolonial Option - Paperback

by Walter D. Mignolo (Editor), Arturo Escobar (Editor)

If the secular was an option that Europe offered to the world and transformed European imperialism, the decolonial option is emerging from the non-European world as responses to both Christianity and the European secular.

This book was published as a special issue of Cultural Studies.

Author Biography

Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies, Professor in the Program of Literature and Adjunct in Cultural Anthropology. He is also Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University.

Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, and Adjunct in the Department of Geography and of Communication, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.