ABSTRACT
This chapter owes its inception to involvement with prison education and the impact this experience has had on subsequent involvement in academia. The most important limitation in this research is the complicated relationship of Cypriots with the concept and the practices of coloniality. In July 1878, the British arrived in Cyprus. The innovations introduced by the new colonial masters were integrated into the Ottoman rule, which created a mixed administrative system with 'eastern' and 'western' elements. According to Boaventura de Sousa Santos, we can observe from the very beginning an internal colonialism in Europe. The separation of the production of knowledge from European epistemic premises is not independent from the separation of politics of punishment and of education. Decoloniality has a specific historical background and its own sociopolitical context. All attempts at gaining a foothold for feminism in the country originated from mainstream male-dominated parties.
