Presenter:

Prof. Xolile Simon, Associate-Professor: Practical Theology and Missiology

Description:

Decoloniality has been unfolding beyond academic settings in the everyday lives of African and Asian Indigenous communities, amidst persistent coloniality and neo-coloniality. The presentation prioritises the causal factors that can facilitate or inhibit the power of decoloniality as a practice and method within the contexts of Indigenous reality, knowledge, and emancipation. It argues that embodying decoloniality activates emergent causal factors (power mechanisms) of the body: hands and feet (agency), mind (reflexivity), and heart (spirituality). It illustrates, through contextual examples and texts, how and why the power mechanisms of the body can facilitate or inhibit processes and outcomes of deep transformation across domains of reality (the empirical, actual, and real) and social order (the biological, physical, and natural).