These are goals that the project known as decoloniality also shares, but its approach to realizing them is somewhat different. To begin with, decolonial thinkers critique certain aspects of postcolonialism. They reject Western traditions more emphatically and instead draw their inspiration from the work of nonwhite and mostly non-Western thinkers such as Frantz Fanon. They accuse postcolonialism of being too aligned with the antihumanist thought of postmodernism: in their broad distrust of narratives, rationality, universalism, and constructs such as freedom and human rights—or, rather, in their association of all of these things exclusively with Western values—postcolonial theorists (the critique goes) become complicit in the continued dominance of Eurocentrism. Instead, decolonial thinkers are inspired by and engaged with grassroots movements such as the Sem Terra (Landless) movement in Brazil or the Zapatistas in Chiapas, gender-equality movements such as Chicana and Muslima feminism, projects such as the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s efforts to shift the geography of reason, and the creation of institutions such as the World Social Forum.

Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, loc. 267