With Keynote Speaker Professor Nelson Maldonado Torres

This presentation continues a conversation that started with Chela Sandoval's Methodology of the Oppressed twenty-five years ago, and an exchange with Sandoval herself in the context of the "Mapping the Decolonial Turn" Conference at the University of California-Berkley. It was this conference that introduced the concept of a "decolonial turn," which is now found in dozens, if not hundreds, of publications around the world. Methodology of the Oppressed is a tour-de-force that simultaneously seeks to make the case for a focus on the decolonial rather than the postcolonial, and for a desegregation of theoretical domains.