# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-mignolo
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:26:33.237Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-mignolo"
name: "Walter Mignolo"
slug: "walter-mignolo"
description: "Walter D. Mignolo is an Argentine semiotician and professor at Duke University who has published extensively on semiotics and literary theory, and worked on different aspects of the modern and colonial world, exploring concepts such as decoloniality, global coloniality, the geopolitics of knowledge, transmodernity, border thinking, and pluriversality. He is one of the founders of the modernity/coloniality critical school of thought."
tagline: "Argentine semiotician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_Mignolo_en_2019.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Argentina"
  isoCode: "AR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-05-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.30044
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Walter Mignolo"
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    title: "والتر مينولو"
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    title: "Walter Mignolo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Walter D. Mignolo"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mignolo"
    title: "Walter Mignolo"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mignolo"
    title: "Walter Mignolo"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mignolo"
    title: "Walter Mignolo"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mignolo"
    title: "Walter Mignolo"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump