Global Disorder and Global Coloniality: A Decolonial Take

In 2015 a panel was held based around a couple of key questions: what the reasons or the causes underlying the current global disorder are, and what are the venues to overcome it. As part of the panel, the author of the present article argued that the underlying causes of the prevailing chaos are, on one hand, the persistence of global coloniality and, on the other, the fact that since around the year 2000 we have been witnessing the economic and political reemergence of cultures and civilizations that have historically been undermined by global coloniality. This article pushes further on those preliminary answers to the above two questions and relates them to the present world disorder ten years later. The chaos has intensified. We, on this planet, are at the crucial historical moment in which Western unipolar political, economic, and cultural hegemonic global order is declining, while a multipolar economic and political world order is emerging in interstate relations and a pluriverse cultural horizon is emerging in the public sphere globally.

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Author Walter D. Mignolo Literature