The Politics of Decolonial InvestigationsIn The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty first. Decolonial border thinking allows Mignolo to outline how the combination of the self fashioned narratives of Western civilization and the hegemony of Eurocentric thought served to eradicate all knowledges in non European languages and praxes