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] .

Jan 21, 2021 · In comes decoloniality, which seeks to understand the close-knit relationship between the colonial condition and the imposition of a Western logic of ‘modernity’ as a consequence of colonialism.

Dec 15, 2022 · This document introduces the key concepts of decolonial theory that inform many current calls to decolonize. It provides examples from Latin America, Africa, and North America of how activists have envisioned or realized decolonial futures.

Dec 15, 2022 · This document introduces the key concepts of decolonial theory that inform many current calls to decolonize. It provides examples from Latin America, Africa, and North America of how activists have envisioned or realized decolonial futures.

Decoloniality refers to the logic, metaphysics, ontology and matrix of power created by the massive processes and aftermath of colonization and settler-colonialism. This matrix and its lasting effects and structures is called "coloniality."

Decolonial theory distinguishes between coloniality and colonialism. It argues that colonial relations continue to shape and ground our present-day political, economic, social, and knowledge systems; this is termed “coloniality.”

Mar 1, 2024 · As intellectual kin, decolonial and postcolonial perspectives have come to mirror each other’s incompleteness; postcolonial deconstruction risks becoming apolitical if it fails to undermine power structures, while decolonial reconstruction faces the …

Decolonization may be defined as the active resistance against colonial powers, and a shifting of power towards political, economic, educational, cultural, psychic independence and power that originate from a colonized nation’s own indigenous culture.

Decoloniality resists colonial processes in ways that rehumanize, repair, and liberate people, cultures and bodies of knowledge that have been harmed and/or exploited by colonialism. Colonialism and resistance to it, began in the 15th century with the imposition of European cultures and geopolitical powers upon Indigenous (native) cultures.

Decolonial refers to the process of challenging and dismantling the social, political, economic, and cultural systems that were imposed by colonial powers. It involves the active rejection of colonial ideologies, practices, and structures in order to reclaim and revitalize indigenous ways of being, knowing, and doing.