This article proposes postcolonial critical realism (PCR) as an ontological framework that explains the structuring relationship between racialized, colonial discourses and the social world. Beginning with the case study of the global climate crisis, it considers how scholars and activists have made sense of the present crisis, and how their discourses reflect and reproduce the climate crisis at large. To theorize the relationship between racialized, power-laden discourses and material reality, it derives five tenets of PCR: first, colonial discourses underlie, and interact with, material structures; second, coloniality is global and made visible through differential events and experiences; third, subaltern lived experiences reveal the nature of reality at large; fourth, coloniality is power-laden, sticky, and often invisible; and finally, decolonization must target all three domains of the social world and their interactions. The article concludes by considering how this framework might enrich anticolonial thought in the social sciences, as well as social movements.

本文提出后殖民批判现实主义（PCR）作为本体论框架，解释种族化，殖民话语和社会世界之间的结构关系。从全球气候危机的案例研究开始，它考虑了学者和激进主义者如何理解当前的危机，以及他们的论述如何反映和再现了整个气候危机。为了理论化种族化的，充满权力的话语与物质现实之间的关系，它得出了PCR的五个原则：第一，殖民话语是物质结构的基础，并与之相互作用。第二，殖民是全球性的，通过不同的事件和经验可以看到。第三，次生的经历揭示了整个现实的本质。第四，殖民地是充满权力的，粘滞的，而且常常是看不见的。最后，非殖民化必须针对社会世界的所有三个领域及其相互作用。本文最后通过考虑该框架如何丰富社会科学以及社会运动中的反殖民思想来得出结论。