Coloniality Archives | Contending Modernities

Christian Zionism as Geopolitics and Public Theology: A Latin American Perspective

Nicolás Panotto
September 26, 2024September 30, 2024

The utopia Christian Zionism claims is nothing more than a teleological, fatalistic, and metaphysical vision of history, which blocks any possibility of movement, of liberation, of genuine redemption.

Enrique Dussel, Comrade Ancestor

Series: Remembering Dussel

Filipe Maia
February 13, 2024

As the grief for, and the farewells to, the first generation of liberation theologians and philosophers continue to meet us, the living will need to develop strategies to enlist these ancestors as sources for our efforts in the direction of decolonization.

Thinking From Vulnerability, Enrique Dussel (Z”L)

Series: Remembering Dussel

Santiago Slabodsky
January 22, 2024January 25, 2024

Let us remember Enrique Dussel as someone who challenged us to keep building transmodern critical solidarity movements from the perspective of vulnerable exteriority.

Black Dignity as a Universal Horizon

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity

Nadia Fadil
August 31, 2023January 24, 2024

The political vocabularies and tactics generated through the African American struggle has had a universal reach that has inspired and shaped struggles all over the world.

Modernity, Coloniality, and Interiority in Kindred Spirits

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits

Brenna Moore
May 4, 2022February 1, 2024

The affective, even queer way Maritain and Massignon carried themselves is “modern” in a sense because modernity creates space for the perpetuation of hegemonic norms as well as their subversion.

The Myth of the Secular Revolutionary: On Fanon’s Religion

Series: Reconsidering Fanon and Religion

An Yountae
April 7, 2022February 1, 2024

Fanon’s critique of religion winds up being a powerful critique of the secular. Contrarily, Fanon seeks refuge in the secular in order to resignify the human but he ends up repurposing religion along the way.

On Decolonizing Queer Studies

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer

Sa'ed Atshan
October 26, 2021January 27, 2024

This essay draws upon van Klinken’s book as a launching pad to think through decolonizing queer studies more broadly.

Introducing The Arab and Jewish Questions

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions

Leila Farsakh
August 26, 2021August 26, 2021

This book interrogates the opposition between the “Arab” and the “Jew” in order to challenge dominant understandings of political identities, nationalism, and citizenship rights.

An Afro-Jewish Critique of Jews Against Liberation

Lewis R. Gordon
March 26, 2021January 27, 2024

Identification with whiteness leaves no recourse from being identified with the enslaver and master. White Jewish evocation of Exodus thus reeks of hypocrisy so long as such a Jew insists on being white.

Buddhist Studies Has a Whiteness Problem

Constance Kassor
March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

Buddhist studies, on the whole, has not acknowledged, let alone addressed, issues of colonization, white supremacy, and the erasure of Asian people and cultures within the field.

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