Abstract: Submission #206

Abstract Decolonial scholarship is gaining traction and currency in the Global South, particularly in the social and human sciences. A plethora of critical scholars has emerged and thoroughly engaged with the notion of decoloniality as a concept and process from a variety of dimensions that significantly enriched the discourse. The ground swelling of narratives proves ripe for consolidation and actioning. Many in the academy have been questioning the practicability of decoloniality as an epistemic and political movement. Thus it is critically important that the discourse progresses to practical application and actioning. However, there are critical transformative prerequisites at structural and systemic levels for decoloniality to find practical application. Notwithstanding the consensus amongst scholars in the Global South that coloniality emanates from the Euro-North American-centric modernity, not much progress has been registered towards total de-linking with the modern capitalist and neo-liberal complex of global power relations. Meanwhile, the socio-economic, cultural, and political conditions of the present in the Global South not only highlight the endemic problems created by the Euro-North American-centric modernity, but also the extent of ineptitude of theories/knowledges generated from a Euro-North American-centric context to assist in addressing such problems. This conceptual paper presents arguments for a serious engagement and accentuation of political movements including but not limited to a shift in political and economic power from Europe and North America towards a new world order where people of the Global South are at liberty to determine own humanity and realise true pluriversality. This paper introduces, defines, and explains the necessity for total disentanglement with modern capitalist and neo-liberal complex as a critical transformative prerequisite for the future of post-colonial nations.