“…However, before we introduce our examples, we should note that our mapping of each cartography was informed by our understanding of the possibilities and limitations of a meta-frame that is common across all of them: the modern/colonial global imaginary. We have explored this social imaginary elsewhere in more detail (see Andreotti, Stein, Ahenakew, & Hunt, 2015;Stein & Andreotti, 2015a, 2015b but, in brief, it naturalizes Western/European domination and capitalist, colonial social relations and projects a local (Western/European) perspective as a universal blueprint for imagined global designs (e.g., Mignolo, 2000;Quijano, 2000;Silva, 2007Silva, , 2013Spivak, 1999;Tlostanova & Mignolo, 2012;Wynter, 2003).…”