decoloniality
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- Foundational principles
- Coloniality of knowledge
- Coloniality of power
- Colonialism as the root
- Imperialism as the successor
- Coloniality of gender
- Disobedience and de-linking
- Decoloniality
- Examples
- Decolonial critique
- Decolonial art
- Decolonial feminism
- Decolonial love
- Critiquing Western liberal democracy
- Distinction from related ideas
- Postcolonialism
- Political decolonization
- Postmodernism
- Criticism
- See also
- References
- Works cited
- Further reading
thumb|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."]]
Decoloniality () 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. It critiques the perceived universality of Western knowledge and the superiority of Western culture, including the systems and institutions that reinforce such perceptions. Decolonial perspectives understand colonialism as the basis for the everyday function of capitalist modernity and of imperialism.
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