ABSTRACT:
The imperative to decolonize has now taken several disciplines by storm. For many, postcolonial approaches are the foil of the call to decolonize, presented as tainted by coloniality and as having a reduced to non-existent liberating potential. This essay highlights critiques of the Latin American decolonial project, including decoloniality as an academic power struggle that leads to self-progression and enrichment of Global North academics and institutions, lack of self-awareness of its own entanglements in coloniality, and forms of intellectual fundamentalism and policing of thought under claims of virtuosity. The essay closes by pointing out that the decolonial project also complements the current and ongoing corporatization of universities.
Keywords:
Decoloniality; Postcolonial approaches; Intellectual fundamentalism