THE NEW POLIS

THE NEW POLIS - A Journal of Critical Theory, Social Analysis, and Political Philosophy and Theology

Vol. 1 No. 1 Winter 2022

DECOLONIALITY AND THE DISINTEGRATION OF WESTERN COGNITIVE EMPIRE: RETHINKING SOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITORIALITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

The **Inaugural Issue (Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2022)**, titled *Decoloniality and the Disintegration of Western Cognitive Empire: Rethinking Sovereignty and Territoriality in the 21st Century*, marks the beginning of a critical dialogue on the transformation of global epistemologies and power structures.

The Inaugural Issue (Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2022), titled Decoloniality and the Disintegration of Western Cognitive Empire: Rethinking Sovereignty and Territoriality in the 21st Century, marks the beginning of a critical dialogue on the transformation of global epistemologies and power structures.

Vol. 1 · No. 1 · Winter 2022

Contents

  1. WHAT DO WE MEAN BY "DECOLONIALITY"? — Walter Mignolo, Catherine Walsh, Tink Tinker, Fernando Gómez Herrero
  2. THE COLONIAL COMPROMISE: A PANEL DISCUSSION — Tink Tinker, Ward Churchill, Miguel de la Torre, Natsu Taylor Saito, Roger Green
  3. KNOWING WITH THE CITY: SUBVERTING COGNITIVE EMPIRES THROUGH SPECULATIVE FICTION — Mateusz Borowski
  4. THE HERETIC AND THE ICONOCLAST: SYLVIA WYNTER'S ENGAGEMENT WITH DERRIDA — Brendan John Brown
  5. THE LATEST AMERICAN APPROPRIATION OF WESTERN UNIVERSALISM: A CRITIQUE OF G. JOHN IKENBERRY'S "LIBERAL INTERNATIONAL ORDER" — Fernando Gómez Herrero
  6. UNDOING THE LEGACY OF THE DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIAN DOMINATION ("DISCOVERY") — Roger Green
  7. THE NGIGUA COMMUNITY JAGÜEY: A SANCTUARY OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE TODAY — Maria Cristina Manzano-Munguía, Guillermo López Varela
  8. RECONSTRUCTING DIVERSAL ONTOLOGIES: UNLEARNING AS A METHODOLOGY OF DECOLONIAL LIVING — Magna Mohapatra, Zunayed Ahmed Ehsan
  9. IS SCOTLAND A COLONY? THE WESTERN COGNITIVE EMPIRE AND THE RHETORIC OF COLONIALISM — Richard Saville-Smith