The Politics of Decolonial Investigations

Focusing on the concept of coloniality, Walter D. Mignolo explores its impact from the sixteenth century to the present, highlighting how Western narratives and Eurocentric thought have marginalized non-European knowledge systems. He examines the geopolitical roots of racial and gender classifications, modernity, and globalization within this framework. Mignolo advocates for decolonial politics that seek to detach from Western epistemologies, emphasizing the need for an epistemic reconstitution of thought and practices to challenge the enduring dominance of Western legacies.