What is coloniality of knowledge? / Madina V. Tlostanova.

There have been extensive debates amongst Western scholars on the nature of modernity. When did the modern era begin? What are the characteristics of modernity? What were its causes - were they primarily economic, social, technological or epistemic? Despite the variety of positions and emphases, Western scholars take modernity as given. Madina Tlostanova and her colleagues of the international decolonial collective (Walter Mignolo and Arturo Escobar) do not. the argue that modernity is an idea, a way of describing and historical processes that legitimizes and makes it seem inevitable, and eventually, the destiny of all nations. However, the binaries of colonizer/colonized or western/non-western are too simple to account for the complexity of asymmetric power relations globally, and their effects on knowledge production and on knowledge producers. Therefore in discussing the ambiguous situation of post-Soviet era scholars, Tlostanova deploys new terms such as colonial difference, imperial difference, self-orientatlizing and double colonization.

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