V. ‘We Nah Want No Devil Philosophy’
‘We Nah Want No Devil Philosophy’
This is a commentary by Ajay Parasram on Robbie’s: The Black Pacific provides a resource to engage with your students on topics covered in The Pedagogy of Decolonial Development Futures: building on decolonizing past and present in development studies teaching praxis. The article examines the coloniality of modern territory across Turtle Island and beyond and dissects the colonial norm of “total territorial rule” that emerged from the clash of mid-19th century local and European ontologies of territory in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).