DECOLONIAL PORTALS AS PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE

This chapter explores decolonial portals as both a theoretical lens and a pedagogical practice, offering pathways to challenge dominant narratives and reimagine more just and sustainable planetary futures. Inspired by decolonial literature and rooted in lived experiences of the Philippines, Argentina, and Latvia, the concept of portals emerges from cracks in the fabric of modernity/coloniality—scars inflicted by colonial violence, ecological destruction, and suppressed histories. The authors navigate suppressed histories and subjectivities, from the Philippine-American War to settler colonialism in Argentina and Soviet ecological devastation in Latvia, to illustrate how decolonial portals disrupt extractivist logics and foreground relationality and care. Together, they discover partial connections between their narratives, ultimately creating pedagogical spaces that encourage a radical reimagination of planetary futures: those that recognize and emphasize our care and kinship with one another, human and more-than-human, honoring the interconnectedness of all life.