Decolonial and Anticolonial Oral History Project

Decolonising means challenging coloniality. Decolonial work aims ‘to liberate the production of knowledge, reflection, and communication from the pitfalls of European rationality/modernity’ (Quijano, 2007, p. 177). It seeks to free knowledge production by giving back the epistemological force to the sources that have been made subaltern. This implies the need to take ‘seriously the epistemic force of local histories and to think theory through from the political praxis of subaltern groups’ (Escobar, 2003, p. 6). Decolonising then, is  to undo the actions and effects of colonialism by opposing colonial logics and going beyond them (Goyes, 2018). This collection of interviews provides a variety of perspectives within decolonial thinking and traces the trajectory of its theorisation.