Decolonize "Decoloniality"

What it is and why we care

This is a part of the “Decolonizing” series. See here, here, here, here, here, and here for previous takes.

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Yes, they are definitely reading our Flickering Beacon, and they are learning. Remember the language of the first ads? “Decolonizing teaching-the-whole-person”, “dualism conflict”, “speakers describes”. Their English got better. And yet…

What is this decoloniality?

The '-iality' ending normally creates a new noun from an existing one; it suggests a quality, relationship, concept, or methodology. Consider:

1. triviality : information and data that are considered to be of little value

2. triality : a relationship among three vector spaces

3. bestiality : sexual activity between humans and non-human animals

4. pictoriality : a [photographic] style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph

So, is decoloniality :

1. a perpetual state of being decolonized, with the existence of the to-be-decolonized coloniality being supported by zero evidence,

2. a relationship between the decolonizers, the rest of the (bewildered) population, and the truth,

3. an act of decolonizing (everything, including snails¹),

4. or a method of bringing to life an alternative reality where Enlightenment didn’t happen?

They never explained. Precision of language is White Supremacy.

CIT’s poor and obscure “decolonized” English is a glimpse into what a decolonized education is, in general. That’s right, illiteracy.

1. Nah, just kidding. Or am I? Indeed:

El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters). Francisco Goya, c 1799