The Power of Social Theory: The Anti-Colonial Discursive Framework

Abstract

This paper introduces the anti-colonial discourse as a guiding framework for forming alliances and partnerships among anti-oppression activists in the academia and the larger society. To this end, it builds upon insights from narratives of "indigeneity" and traditions of anti-racism theory and praxis. Thanks to the spaces created by Marxist, feminist, post-colonialist, and deconstructionist struggles, the anti-colonial discourse seeks to reclaim a new independent space strongly interconnected with and heavily interlocked to those other spaces. This paper illustrates the interconnectivities, similarities, and dissimilarities between this new anti-colonial space and the spaces created by those other rich traditions . Its aim is to envision a common zone of resistance in which the oppressed and marginalized groups are enabled to form alliances in resisting various colonial tendencies.