coloniality

American  

[kuh-loh-nee-al-i-tee] / kəˌloʊ niˈæl ɪ ti /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of coloniality

First recorded in 1860–65; colonial + -ity

Example Sentences

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

We brave coloniality everyday by calling out institutions, like yourself, that intentionally or unintentionally perpetuate it.

From The Guardian

Such synchronous breeding activity is probably a function of strong coloniality with attendant "social facilitation" of breeding behavior.

From Project Gutenberg