Full Description
This book is both a deep dive into and a critique of foundational decolonial concepts and epistemologies, engaging both historical, theoretical analyses of social issues and conditions, and standpoints from activism. The chapters are situated within multiple, plural and shifting force fields within the academy, and present a pathway to critically engage political or academic practices within and outside the university. The authors specifically engage contestations and harmonies in approaches of decoloniality, epistemic injustices, Southern epistemologies and epistemologies of the Souths. Alongside the theoretical chapters sit interventions on self-liberation, healing, reconstitution of human life, embracing interdependence and defying boundaries. The book represents a critical intervention in the development of decolonial theories and methodologies, and will be of interest to scholars, students and activists within and outside of academia.
Contents
Contributors
Crain Soudien: Foreword
Sinfree Makoni, Dorothy Takyiakwaa, Vicky Khasandi-Telewa and Alissa J. Hartig: Introduction: Decoloniality and Southern Epistemologies as Alternatives
Part 1: Conceptions and Framings of Decoloniality: Contestations and Harmonies
Chapter 1. Lewis Gordon: Freedom, Justice and Decolonization
Chapter 2. Arturo Escobar: Beyond Monohumanism: An Emerging Narrative from Latin America
Chapter 3. Mamphela Ramphele and Sinfree Makoni: In Conversation with Mamphela Ramphele
Chapter 4. Marit Tolo Østebø: Models as Viral Assemblages
Part 2: Epistemic (In)justices and Decolonization
Chapter 5. Sujata Patel: Colonialism and the Framing of Social Theory: A Hundred-Year History
Chapter 6. Akosua Adomako Ampofo: Cross-Examining Epistemic Violence and Working Towards Epistemic Freedom
Chapter 7. Julia Suárez-Krabbe: Over Our Dead Bodies: The Death Project, Egoism and the Existential Dimensions of Decolonization
Part 3: Cases of Colonization and Approaches to Decolonization
Chapter 8. Murad Idris: A Conversation About 'War for Peace'
Chapter 9. Frieda Ekotto: Reading Négritude Thinkers with Black Lives Matter
Chapter 10. Emiliano Treré: Key Challenges and Dangers in the Decolonization of Data (Studies)
Chapter 11. John Holmwood: Modern Capitalism as Colonialism
Chapter 12. Mary Louise Pratt: Planetarity and the Crisis of Knowledge: Dancing with the Trickster
Index
