Decoloniality rejects postcolonialism for complicity in Western universalist thinking

Evidence

These are goals that the project known as decoloniality also shares, but its approach to realizing them is somewhat different. To begin with, decolonial thinkers critique certain aspects of postcolonialism. They reject Western traditions more emphatically and instead draw their inspiration from the work of nonwhite and mostly non-Western thinkers such as Frantz Fanon. They accuse postcolonialism of being too aligned with the antihumanist thought of postmodernism: in their broad distrust of narratives, rationality, universalism, and constructs such as freedom and human rights—or, rather, in their association of all of these things exclusively with Western values—postcolonial theorists (the critique goes) become complicit in the continued dominance of Eurocentrism. Instead, decolonial thinkers are inspired by and engaged with grassroots movements such as the Sem Terra (Landless) movement in Brazil or the Zapatistas in Chiapas, gender-equality movements such as Chicana and Muslima feminism, projects such as the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s efforts to shift the geography of reason, and the creation of institutions such as the World Social Forum. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 267

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precisely scopes the postcolonialism vs. decoloniality distinction, which matters for placing the data-colonialism frame within the right critical lineage.
• XREF: Maps the postcolonial/decolonial split onto the rivalry between attention/surveillance schools and the data-colonialism school — worth tracking which lineage each inherits. — connects to: Decolonial theory replaces universal worldviews with pluriversal ones and subaltern standpoints — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 268; Postcolonial theory recasts decolonization as a literary-critical rather than political contest — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 393; The postcolonial describes a world condition rather than a theory or identity — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 52 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Western modernity is a hegemonic particularism disguised as universalism #corroborates (0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 153
• Decolonial theory replaces universal worldviews with pluriversal ones and subaltern standpoints #corroborates (0.82) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 268
• Belief in Western cultural universality is false, immoral, and dangerous #corroborates (0.78)
• Postcolonial theory recasts decolonization as a literary-critical rather than political contest #corroborates (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 393
• Colonial universalism disguised European Christian values as transcendent truths #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 49
• The postcolonial describes a world condition rather than a theory or identity #responds-to (0.72) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 52
• Ethnophilosophy survives as a decolonial challenge to Western epistemic hegemony #corroborates (0.72)
• Postcolonial psychoanalytic theory builds ideal types detached from empirical reality of racism #complicates (0.72)
• Rising non-Western cultures relativized the Western episteme #corroborates (0.72)
• Non-Western peoples read Western universalism as imperialism and threat #complicates (0.70)
• Western universalism functions as imperialism from the perspective of non-Western societies #complicates (0.70) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 489
• Discourse collapses the thought-action divide and shapes how the West behaved toward others #responds-to (0.70) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 569