Decoloniality in elt:A Political Project

Abstract

We started this project as a collective enterprise. Íkala invited Carmen Helena, a Colombian elt teacher educator and researcher, to organize a special volume on decoloniality and elt. Having a decolonial mind, Carmen Helena could not do it single-handedly and in Colombia alone. She remembered that Clarissa, from Brazil, was also working on decoloniality from within elt, and proceeded to invite her as a co-organizer. Clarissa immediately accepted the invitation and suggested Gabriela to integrate the group. As an Argentinian scholar, expert on decolonial political theory, and a journalist living in the us, Gabriela would contribute with a third take on decoloniality from outside elt per se, but dealing with the perks and benefits of being/acting within English inside and outside academia. Gabriela also accepted the invitation and now, here we are