Rather than succumb to hubris, the West needs to better articulate its own anti-colonial agenda in both rhetoric and actions.
The peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean design and practice forms of existence based on ancestral epistemological and ontological structures.
This book has important contributions, but it has a greater virtue – to generate concerns of various topics from decolonial thought of great relevance at this time for the social sciences.
Even if they integrate decolonial thinking, memorials do not present a full picture if they focus on men’s experiences while silencing women’s stories.
Manan Ahmed discusses colonial epistemes, Hindustan, memory and Partition, and decolonising the university.
Attempts at addressing the Eurocentrism of the field have predominantly focused on how to make present what was absented from the narrative of the making of the international.
Making daily, unglamourous investments to build capacity, shift power, and give credit where credit is due may be the only way the mountain of colonization ever moves.
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