Decolonizing Knowledge(s) in 21st Century Political Struggles

The paper is a  call for a deeper interrogation of how knowledge is produced and whose theory and  practice  are guide-posts for   21^st century revolutionary change. In international knowledge production spaces such as the ISA,  we need to put the issue of decolonizing on the table.   Regarding political change, too often the same colonial assumptions are folded into  social movements  as the very knowledge systems that originally colonized. It is a call for traditionally
marginalized voices to be heard, but also  a call for interrogating the hierarchies reproduced in social movement spaces.   What is clear regarding knowledge for whom,  we must think more intersectionally, decentering the traditional ways of articulating social change.  We must interrogate continued practices of  heteropatriarchy, colonialisms:  neo, settler and internal,  in the context of neoliberal global capitalism.