https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/1dc047e6-7aca-43ab-994c-808802885bd5 In this episode Joma Geneciran will join us to talk about their latest piece "Global historical materialism and decoloniality" in Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE). From the abstract: "This debate piece offers a global historical materialist critique of decolonial theory, engaging Walter Mignolo’s work. It argues that decolonial literature, by creating abstract universals like modernity/coloniality, disarticulates theory from specific social formations and historical contexts. The author proposes eight methodological questions to demystify decolonial literature and reintegrate theory into history. Using Mignolo’s writings, the paper demonstrates how decolonial thinking can lead to political detachment and ineffective transformative strategies. The critique emphasises grounding theory in concrete social formations to render history legible and serve national liberation movements. By contrasting decolonial abstractions with historical examples from anti-colonial struggles on and beyond the African continent, it highlights decolonial thought’s limitations in addressing capitalism as a world system. It advocates for a global historical materialist analysis that integrates capitalism’s interconnected nature and reintroduces the social formation as a unit of analysis for understanding social relations." Joma Geneciran (they/them) is a PhD student in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine, USA, focusing on political economy and the agrarian question of national liberation in the Philippines. They organise in the ND Movement and elsewhere. They also co-host a new third worldist podcast, JDPOD. The essay we discuss in this episode is available here: https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.62191/ROAPE-2024-0035 You can follow JDPOD here: https://linktr.ee/jdpod Follow Joma here: https://x.com/ka_joma_ To support our work please contirbute to our patreon at https://www.patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism Background art is from a photograph taken by Elmer B. Domingo, described as, "A mural depicting Philippine History at Angono near the church" full details here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angono_Mural.jpg Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:09:42 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/1dc047e6-7aca-43ab-994c-808802885bd5 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.