Decoloniality is a double-faced concept. On one side, it points toward the analytic of coloniality, the darker side of modernity. On the other, it points toward building decolonial futures. In the first case, it is analytic and theoretical. In the second it is utopian. However, the analytic proce-dures are already decolonial: Coloniality is always... See more

We have, so to speak, ‘our own’ ways of being. In fact, I would translate Chatterjee into my own vocabulary: ‘we know that we have to decolonize being, and to do so we have to start by decolonizing knowledge’.

When I write about what it means to decolonize, I’m referring to the idea that it means a return to one’s original state of being, before the effects of colonization. This legacy of colonization includes patriarchy, white supremacy, heteronormativity, capitalism as an economic principle that gives advantages to some people over others, a belief... See more