Mignolo, W. D., & Walsh, C. E. (2018). On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis. Durham: Duke University Press. Paperback: $27.95

Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh illustrate the theory and praxis of decoloniality through this text. By drawing upon examples of decolonial movements in South America, On Decoloniality challenges the reader to question assumptions of Western epistemological predicates from perspectives that challenge the epistemic limitations imposed by the hegemony of Western and modern/colonial epistemology. These questions contribute to the process of “delinking,” or decolonial thinking, advanced by On Decoloniality. However, the text continues a legacy of white settler scholarship that has not gone far enough in addressing concerns raised by indigenous thinkers like Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui and Eve Tuck, whose epistemic, political and territorial sovereignty is at the center of the decolonial project.