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PORTFOLIO EXAM: MAY/JUNE
2020 FOR SOC2602

,SOC2601 MAY/JUNE 2020 EXAM



Table of Contents
1. QUESTION 2 .................................................................................................................... 2
1.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................... 2
1.2 Decoloniality of thought ............................................................................................ 2
1.3 Coloniality of knowledge .......................................................................................... 3
1.4 Coloniality of being ................................................................................................... 4
1.5 Coloniality of power .................................................................................................. 5
1.6 Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 5
2. QUESTION 4 .................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................... 7
2.2 Conditions that made neoliberalism possible and necessary in South Africa. .... 7
2.3 Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 10
3. REFERENCES ............................................................................................................... 11




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, SOC2601 MAY/JUNE 2020 EXAM


1. QUESTION 2

Define what decoloniality of thought is, and in your essay discuss the theoretical leanings of
decoloniality: ‘coloniality of knowledge’, ‘coloniality of power’ and ‘coloniality of being’. Use
examples to add context to these conceptualisations.




1.1 Introduction

Decoloniality is explained by Ndlovu-Gatsheni (2015) as the dismantling of relations of power
and conceptions of knowledge that stirred up public opinion about racial, gender and geo-
political hierarchies that came into being and more powerful forms of expression in the colonial
world. Coloniality as a useful concept that names various colonial-like power relations existing
today in those zones that experienced direct colonialism. What is underscored is that the
African future will be a product of struggles for a decolonised new world system and a
imperialised global order. Clearly, such an envisaged new world system and its new global
orders cannot be realised without decolonisation of power, knowledge, and being (Ndlovu-
Gatsheni, 2012). In today’s world we live in a modern westernised society with its own flaws.
The reality is that in this modern world with all its modern flaws there tend to be no modern
solution which means we must not stagger under the concept of modernity but we must
understand the concept of the modern global order

Coloniality is different from colonialism; coloniality refers to long standing patterns of power
that emerged as a result of colonialism. According to Jansen (2018:36) the global coloniality
is constituted and sustained by three interconnected and intertwined issues including
coloniality of power, coloniality of knowledge and coloniality of being.




1.2 Decoloniality of thought

Decoloniality is the energy that does not allow the operation of the logic of coloniality nor
believes the fairy tales of the rhetoric of modernity (Mignolo, 2011:46). Decoloniality has a
diverse range of manifestations some undesirable, and decolonial thinking is, thinking that de-
links and opens to the possibilities hidden by the modern rationality that is mounted and



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