New publication. Postcolonial responses to Decolonial Interventions

The Elena Cornaro University Centre for gender studies and policies suggests "Postcolonial Responses to Decolonial Interventions" recently written by Gianmaria Colpani, Jamila M. H. Mascat and Katrine Smiet. The paper has been published in Postcolonial Studies, Issue 1, Volume 25 by Taylor and Francis Online. 

Abstract. In the last decade, the terms ‘decolonial’ and ‘decoloniality’ have been deployed in an expansive manner and have gained increasing traction across many theoretical and political domains. Therefore, a critical assessment of the specific decolonial vocabulary is both timely and necessary. The relationship between the decolonial and the postcolonial especially requires more critical scrutiny than it has received so far. This special issue takes a step in this direction by staging critical dialogues between postcolonial and decolonial approaches on different terrains. While decolonial theory tends to operate as an expansive and centripetal force, pulling within its orbit a variety of other theoretical and political formation, our focus is on the original formulation of ‘decoloniality’ – or the ‘decolonial option’ – within the Modernity/Coloniality/Decoloniality (MCD) group.