De-coloniality and Domestic Resistance: Everyday Life inside/outside the Academy

This essay, attempts to re-imagine the de-colonial project, specifically the critique of the coloniality of knowledge, on a fundamentally different scale – within the context of the American academy (as opposed to the global geopolitical climate at large). It argues that a domestic de-colonial framework may emerge as a productive intervention in the hegemonic, Western practice of scholarship within the American academy. Specifically, it explores the possibility of the scholarship of everyday life as a type of resistance embodying the potential to unearth valuable knowledges outside the engine of colonial thought.