Dead Ends: Many paths to decoloniality

During the second half of the twentieth century, thousands of people participated in decolonization and social justice movements that did not achieve the hoped for outcomes they imagined. This period has sometimes been called “the defeat/la derrota” because it often led to frustrating cycles of inconsequential organizing and then backlash or repression. Many different movements – union, environmental, educational, health, housing, voting, land – reached a stage where they started to see that the shared roots of all these issues are a basic worldview of a lack of care for life built into modernism/coloniality. This has led to a new appreciation for rethinking our relationality to the world, each other, and ourselves as we attempt to avert a global climate disaster.

Resource: Oneness vs the 1% by Vandana Shiva