Conflating Eurocentric migrancy with postcoloniality drops the question of who decolonizes

Evidence

In discussing the transformation of rapist/exploiter into ritual prey, I focused on Mahasweta’s use of the words janowar (animal) and bonno (savage), and commented on Mary’s negotiations with resources of the other side, a transvestism of spirit. … In my writings about both I pointed out with the greatest possible urgency that a conflation of Eurocentric migrancy with postcoloniality lets drop the vicissitudes of decolonization and ignores the question: Who decolonizes? — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 2220

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Decoloniality rejects postcolonialism for complicity in Western universalist thinking — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 267; Decolonial theory replaces universal worldviews with pluriversal ones and subaltern standpoints — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 268; Third World decolonization birthed difference politics but could not frame global dereliction. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 680

Broader Connections

• Decoloniality rejects postcolonialism for complicity in Western universalist thinking #expands (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 267
• Decolonial theory replaces universal worldviews with pluriversal ones and subaltern standpoints #expands (0.78) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 268