Critical Perspectives on Decoloniality

Southern Epistemologies and Epistemologies of the Souths
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-83668-072-7
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Takyiakwaa, Dorothy

Makoni, Sinfree

Khasandi-Telewa, Inviolata Vicky

Hartig, Alissa J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Khasandi-Telewa, Inviolata Vicky
Inviolata Vicky Khasandi-Telewa is Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in African Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Hartig, Alissa J.
Alissa J. Hartig is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Portland State University, USA. Her research interests include English for Specific Purposes and second language writing.

Takyiakwaa, Dorothy
Dorothy Takyiakwaa is Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Makoni, Sinfree
Sinfree Makoni is Director of African Studies, Liberal Arts Professor of African Studies and Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Dorothy Takyiakwaa is Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Sinfree Makoni is Director of African Studies and Liberal Arts Professor of African Studies and Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Inviolata Vicky Khasandi-Telewa is Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in African Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Alissa J. Hartig is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Portland State University, USA.