For the decolonial shift in various domains of knowledge, see Decolonization of knowledge.
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Installation by Romuald Hazoumè using gas cans. Hazoumè has stated: “I send back to the West that which belongs to them, that is to say, the refuse of consumer society that invades us every day.”[1]
Decoloniality (Spanish: decolonialidad) is a school of thought that aims to delink from Eurocentric knowledge hierarchies and ways of being in the world in order to enable other forms of existence on Earth.[2] It critiques the perceived universality of Western knowledge and the superiority of Western culture, including the systems and institutions that reinforce these perceptions. Decolonial perspectives understand colonialism as the basis for the everyday function of capitalist modernity and imperialism.[3]: 168-174
Decoloniality emerged as part of a South America movement examining the role of the European colonization of the Americas in establishing Eurocentric modernity/coloniality according to Aníbal Quijano, who defined the term and reach.[2][4][5]
Decolonial theory and practice have recently been subject to increasing critique. For example, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò argued that it is analytically unsound, that "coloniality" is often conflated with "modernity", and that "decolonisation" becomes an impossible project of total emancipation.[6] Jonatan Kurzwelly and Malin Wilckens used the example of decolonisation of academic collections of human remains, which were collected during colonial times to support racist theories and give legitimacy to colonial oppression, and showed how both contemporary scholarly methods and political practice perpetuate reified and essentialist notions of identities.[7]
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^ abRebhahn, Michael (2021). "The Decolonial Option". Defragmentation Curating Contemporary Music(eBook). Sylvia Freydank. Mainz: Schott Music. ISBN 978-3-7957-2510-5. OCLC 1256260452.
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^Torres, Nelson Maldonado (2017), "Fanon and Decolonial Thought", in Peters, Michael A. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, Singapore: Springer, pp. 799–803, doi:10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_506, ISBN 978-981-287-588-4, retrieved 2022-10-23
^Tlostanova, Madina; Thapar-Björkert, Suruchi; Knobblock, Ina (2019-10-02). "Do We Need Decolonial Feminism in Sweden?". NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. 27 (4): 290–295. doi:10.1080/08038740.2019.1641552. ISSN 0803-8740. S2CID 201389171.
^Táíwò, Olúfẹ́mi (2022). Against decolonisation: taking African agency seriously. African arguments. London: Hurst & Company. ISBN 978-1-78738-692-1.
^Kurzwelly, Jonatan; Wilckens, Malin S (2023). "Calcified identities: Persisting essentialism in academic collections of human remains". Anthropological Theory. 23 (1): 100–122. doi:10.1177/14634996221133872. ISSN 1463-4996. S2CID 254352277.
notably employed in academic fields like decolonial feminism and the broader study of decoloniality. Decoloniality has been called a form of "epistemic disobedience"...
ISBN 978-1-4616-4090-5. OCLC 606972544. Mignolo, Walter D. (2011). "Modernity and Decoloniality - Latin American Studies - Oxford Bibliographies - obo". www.oxfordbibliographies...
aspects of the modern and colonial world, exploring concepts such as decoloniality, global coloniality, the geopolitics of knowledge, transmodernity, border...
Decolonization scholars form the school of thought known as decoloniality and apply decolonial frameworks to struggles against the coloniality of power and...
Epistemology (/ɪˌpɪstəˈmɒlədʒi/ ih-PISS-tə-MOL-ə-jee; from Ancient Greek ἐπιστήμη (epistḗmē) 'knowledge', and -logy) is the branch of philosophy concerned...
grammatical gender in Spanish. The term references a connection to Indigeneity, decolonial consciousness, inclusion of genders outside the Western gender binary...
Machine. Bjork-James, Carwil (2021). "New maps for an inclusive Wikipedia: decolonial scholarship and strategies to counter systemic bias". New Review of Hypermedia...
social orders and forms of knowledge, advanced in postcolonial studies, decoloniality, and Latin American subaltern studies, most prominently by Anibal Quijano...
Maldonado Torres, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni states that "Decoloniality announces the broad 'decolonial turn' that involves the 'task of the very decolonization...
Women's Feminismo. – The New York's World Fair: 1939–1940". Exploring the Decolonial Imaginary: Four Transnational Lives. New York: MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-137-01284-5...
underlying socioeconomic conditions. Another example is found in forms of decolonial scholarship that claim that colonial powers are responsible for the hegemony...
May 26, 2006. Retrieved February 20, 2021. Albhaisi, Nancy (2022). "Decoloniality as a social issue for psychological study". Journal of Social Issues...
attempt to bring insights from critical race theory, postcolonial and decolonial thought to bear on the question of Islamophobia. At a 2009 symposium on...
ISSN 2663-6522. Schubring, Gert (2021). "On processes of coloniality and decoloniality of knowledge: notions for analysing the international history of mathematics...
(2023). "Why Comparative and Decolonial Studies in Philosophy of Education?". In Hebert, David G. (ed.). Comparative and Decolonial Studies in Philosophy of...
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