When the Decolonial Goes Precolonial: Voices of Ancestors, Revolutions, and Being
Doreen E. Martinez, Karina Cespedes, Roe Bubar, Caridad Souza
International Review of Qualitative Research1/1/2018·DOI·Read paper
Abstract
This article begins by identifying common frameworks of decolonial and postcolonial approaches while considering the current scholarship’s limitations of engagement with those approaches. We believe there is a need to interrupt (neo)colonizing approaches to decoloniality, that is, the limitations of the master’s tools. Rather, we offer a mediation that critiques the centering of the colonial. In doing so, we weave into this analysis a series of narratives that beckon us back prior to the decolonial/postcolonial turn and beyond postcolonial and decolonial feminist thought—allowing for a precolonial knowing and telling to emerge. Through these tellings, we define and acknowledge spaces of meaning and traditions.
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