ABSTRACT
Coloniality is paradoxically based in the tacit understanding that peoples, knowledges, and interconnectivity are always place-based. Coloniality created savagery in order to claim domain over it and the lands of which the then-named savages were living. This chapter discusses how naming the politics of coloniality is a critical component of decolonizing interpretive methodology, where an examination of literature with a critical lens unveils the impact of colonialism on epistemicides of indigenous ideologies, and the perpetuation of exploitative political economies, racism, heteropatriarchy, and colonial education that sustain colonial power and privilege. While the explicit political order of colonialism has been overturned in many countries, A. Quijano argues that coloniality “is the most general form of domination in the world”. Linda Tuhiwai Smith explored how because the Enlightenment period transformed economic, political, and cultural life toward new concepts of modernity, it facilitated new conceptions about the modern state, science, and even the “modern” human person.
