coloniality

[ kuh-loh-nee-al-i-tee ]

noun

1. the set of attitudes, values, ways of knowing, and power structures upheld as normative by western colonizing societies and serving to rationalize and perpetuate western dominance:

   The end of colonial administrations in the modern world was not the end of coloniality.

2. Animal Behavior. the state or condition of associating in colonies.

Word History and Origins

Origin of coloniality¹

First recorded in 1860–65; colonial + -ity

Example Sentences

“This idea of coloniality is still going on,” and the representations are carry-overs from colonial times, she said.

From New York Times

Vo Danh isn’t alone in his plight: Everywhere he looks in France he encounters others like him, whom coloniality has both ghosted and made ghosts of.

From New York Times

Dr. Lugones’s concept of the “coloniality of gender” paved the way for a new understanding of oppression and power, said her collaborator Catherine Walsh, a Latin American studies scholar at Simón Bolívar Andean University in Ecuador.

From Washington Post

“There isn’t only now and here. There is elsewhere and somewhere too. Speak against the coloniality of the world, against the rote of despair it causes, in an always-loudening chant. Please keep loving.”

From Washington Post

For her book “Crisis and Coloniality at Europe’s Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland,” Loftsdóttir interviewed a number of individuals who witnessed the 2008 crisis.

From Washington Post