ABSTRACT

The project of incomplete modernity driven by imperial/colonial/capitalist/patriarchal logics envisions universality with Europe and North America at the center, expressing Eurocentric epistemology. The project of incomplete decolonization driven by anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, and anti-patriarchy’s horizon is a pluriversity in which many worlds fit, and ecologies of knowledges strive. Thus, the important subject of transformative global studies envisioned here is predicated on an advancement of decoloniality as its concomitant elements of ecologies of knowledges, mosaic epistemology, and pluriversity. What is subjected to decolonial epistemic perspective is the existing global economy of knowledge, particularly its constitutive character of uneven intellectual and academic division of labour and the long-standing epistemic crimes ranging from epistemicides and linguicides to culturecides.