This book emerges from a critical engagement with one of the most pressing intellectual concerns of our time: the enduring entanglement between modernity and coloniality. While modernity has long been celebrated as a project of progress, rationality, and universal development, its historical formation cannot be separated from the structures of domination, exclusion, and epistemic control that accompanied colonial expansion. This work seeks to interrogate that paradox.
Beginning with a conceptual introduction, the book guides readers through the foundational relationship between modernity and colonial formations, emphasizing how colonial structures continue to shape contemporary realities. It then explores the conceptual triad of modernity, coloniality, and decoloniality, offering a critical framework for understanding how power operates not only through political and economic systems but also through knowledge, identity, and culture.
