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Introduction Colonization is the process of foreign invaders seizing control of land and enforcing new forms of governance, religion, culture, and resource extraction. It is often accomplished through violence and forceful displacement of Indigenous populations. Decolonization - the act of reversing the effects of colonization - cannot happen without a clear understanding of the colonial history of European settlers and their global domination. Western colonization created the means by which certain narratives - often anti-Indigenous and discriminatory - discipline our lives. For this reason, Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang assert that decolonization is the process of disrupting our colonial foundations. They argue that decolonization is not a metaphor. Instead, as Sylvia Wynter claims, it is praxis, a means to trouble the colonial frames that pervade our interactions and worldviews while engaging alternative, ancestral, and imaginative possibilities. Relationships are a central aspect of decolonization, and all over the world Indigenous peoples are demanding stronger and healthier relations between humans as well as with land and water. Decolonization is another way of being human, in a world that has centered human subjectivity to specific forms of exploitative power. Ultimately, decolonization is complex, layered, and contextual; but at the center of
it all, it is a grounded attempt to be whole in all ways, with all things, and all people.
Explanation of Zine Structure It is our acknowledgement and understanding that decolonization is not static or fixed, and as part of an institutional university, we wrestle with the tension and incommensurability of enacting decolonial concepts and practices through our work. Nevertheless, this zine is an endeavor to bring better understanding of the historical contexts and actors involved in attempts at decolonial practice within the fields of social impact. We explore a decolonial lens through the six Pathways of Social Impact, a framework adopted by the UVU Center for Social Impact and developed in 2010 by Stanford University's Haas Center for Public Service. These include: direct service, community engaged learning and research, social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility, policy and governance, community organizing and activism, and philanthropy. An article is included for each pathway, and we have chosen to include two additional articles on travel and media, fields that greatly influence social impact practice. Each article is structured in a way that briefly introduces
