Eurocentrism and Coloniality of Knowledge in Contemporary Contexts
By Yasmin Carpenter Coloniality of knowledge is not a relic of the past — it is the invisible architecture that continues to shape how the world defines truth, reason, and intellectual value. While formal colonialism ended, the hierarchies of knowledge and ways of knowing it created persist in the institutions that regulate knowledge production today: […]
Coloniality of Being and the Dehumanization of the Subaltern
By Yasmin Carpenter The concept of coloniality of being deepens the decolonial critique by addressing the ontological dimension of colonial domination — the ways in which colonialism not only organized power and knowledge but also shaped who counts as fully human. If the coloniality of power orders the world through hierarchies of race and labor, […]
Coloniality of Knowledge and Coloniality of Power
By Yasmin Carpenter The notions of coloniality of knowledge and coloniality of power are among the most influential contributions of Latin American decolonial thought. Developed by Aníbal Quijano and expanded by Walter Mignolo, Ramón Grosfoguel, and others, they describe how colonial domination operates not only through political and economic control but also through the control […]
Modernity and eurocentrism
By Yasmin Carpenter The concepts of modernity and Eurocentrism lie at the core of the decolonial critique of Western thought. Far from being neutral or universal categories, they describe a historical project that has defined what counts as reason, progress, and humanity from a specifically European standpoint. The decolonial perspective argues that modernity’s celebrated ideals—rationality, […]
Colonialism, coloniality and decoloniality
By Yasmin Carpenter The concepts of colonialism, coloniality, and decoloniality describe a historical and epistemic continuum that links past empires to present global hierarchies of power and knowledge. While colonialism refers to the formal systems of domination established through conquest, occupation, and empire, coloniality designates the endurance of those logics long after colonial administrations have […]
