Sketching the theoretical and methodological contours of Sylvia Wynter’s sociogenesis

This article builds upon Fanon's and Wynter's theory of sociogeny to sketch the contours of decolonial sociography. Initially, it expounds on the inextricable link between sociogeny, coloniality of being, and race to examine how discourses and social practices establish racial-colonial structures of subjugation and exploitation. The authors posit that decolonial sociography constitutes not only a counter-cartography but also a methodological shift towards examining the interconnected symbolic and material structures that shape the experiences of colonized and negatively racialized communities. Decolonial sociography situates racial-colonial processes as geopolitically entangled within the modern/colonial world system and recognizes that racialization is distinctively configured within specific historical contexts. In conjunction with Fanon's and Wynter's work, the article invokes Glissant's poetics of relations to highlight the persistence of resistance and relational modes of existence that counteract the totalizing and homogenizing effects of modernity/coloniality's sociogenesis of race.