Other, highly influential work has been Graeber and Wengrow's expansive collaboration, Dawn of Everything, as well as the anarchic scholarship of James C. Scott.

Some major literary inspirations are found in books like William Irwin Thompson's The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, or some of Ken Wilber's classic older texts like Up from Eden/Atman Project (though, again, thoroughly departing from stage-centric, developmental logic).

We can learn from living systems, and we already have the right concepts to tell a different history far more aligned with decolonial thought. Meta-historical narratives don't need to sacrifice emergence, or the big picture, when they discard linear, Enlightenment-era stories.