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Provincialism? Absolutely not. I’m not going to confine myself to some narrow particularism. Nor doI intend to lose myself in a disembodied universalism. There are two ways to lose one self: through
walled-in segregation in the particular, or through dissolution into the ‘universal.’ My idea of the
universal is that of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all particulars, the deepening and
coexistence of all particulars (Aime Cesaire 1972: 84).
The decolonial turn does not refer to a single theoretical school, but rather points to a family of
diverse positions that share a view of coloniality as the fundamental problem in the modern (as well as
postmodern and information age), and decolonization or decoloniality as a necessary task that remains
unfinished (Nelson Maldonado-Torres 2011: 2).
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