First, as already mentioned, it seeks intellectual sources beyond the Western canon and is inspired by political movements from the Global South. Second, it is based on a critical dialogue between diverse political and ethical projects that moves toward a pluriversal rather than a universal worldview (based on an abstract Western universalism). And finally, it recognizes that the decolonization of knowledge can be achieved only through critical thinking “from and with subalternized racial/ethnic/sexual spaces and bodies.”

Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, loc. 268