Beginner’s Guide to Building Better Worlds

Levi Gahman is Reader at the University of Liverpool, affiliate with the University of the West Indies and former human rights observer. He focuses on anticolonial praxis, environmental defence and engaged movement research. Shelda-Jane Smith is Lecturer at the University of Liverpool and has a focus on the social and political determinants of physical-mental health. She is also a community volunteer with the Merseyside Caribbean Centre.Filiberto Penados is a Maya activist-scholar focusing on Indigenous future-making. He is President of the Julian Cho Society and adviser to the Toledo Alcaldes Association and Belize National Indigenous Council.Nasha Farhannah Mohamed is a University of the West Indies graduate and independent researcher from Trinidad and Tobago focusing on foreign languages (Spanish, French, Arabic) and postcolonial literature.Atiyah Afifah Mohamed is an independent researcher, Spanish teacher, Geography tutor and local volunteer in Trinidad and Tobago. Her community service work focuses on homelessness and the underprivileged.Johannah-Rae Reyes is an intersectional feminist activist who has worked with CAISO, Womantra, Amnesty International and the Community of the Deaf. She has done advocacy and solidarity work in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Mexico.

• 1. Introduction: From Liberal Bystanding to Emancipatory Praxis2. A World Where Many Worlds Fit3. The Coloniser’s Model/Neoliberal State of the World4. Modernity-Coloniality and Indigenous Realities5. Dispossession, Extractivism, and Violence6. Critical Consciousness and Praxis7. Political Education and Radical Pedagogy8. Gender Justice and Social Reproduction9. Health, Food Sovereignty, Solidarity Economies10. The Battle for the Soul of Education