"The recent years have seen the rise of a distinct and powerful critique assembled under the name “decolonial”. One might find it difficult to pin down. Do we call it the suggestive “decolonial critique”, the substantive “decolonial thought”, the mild “decolonial perspective” or the more neutral and therefore taming “decolonial studies”? While all the possibilities of pinning down the “decolonial” are often pluralized, for example, “decolonial thoughts”, a “decolonial turn” (singular) has been announced here and there. Ramón Grosfoguel and Santiago Castro-Gómez published an edited volume titled precisely that: El giro descolonial (The Decolonial Turn). Articles, journals etc. start to turn to this new terrain of inquiry. Walter Mignolo proposes an alternative, “decolonial option” and spends some considerable ink on theorizing the “option” bit."