Coloniality of Humanity

Robel Abay is sociologist and visiting professor of disability studies at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin.Isabelle Ihring is professor of social work with a focus on youth at the Evangelische Hochschule Freiburg.Faisal M. Garba is associate professor of sociology at the University of Cape Town and associate professor of sociology, migration and mobility at the Africa Institute, Sharjah.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Epistemological and Political Implications of Analyzing the Coloniality of Humanity by Robel Abay, Isabelle Ihring, and Faisal M. GarbaSection I: Silencing the Colonial PastForeword by Vanessa E. ThompsonChapter 1: ‘Transgressive’ Mobility and the Structuring of Space and Belonging by Rose JajiChapter 2: Coloniality in Refugee/Forced Migration and Health Research: Reflections on Complicity and Disobedience by Diana Podar and Yudit NamerChapter 3: Can the African subaltern speak? The Colonial Legacies of Racial Hierarchies in Times of COVID-19 by Robel Abay and Nomaswazi MthombeniChapter 4: The Neglected Colonial Legacy of the 1951 Refugee Convention by Edwin O. Abuya, Ulrike Krause, and Lucy MayblinChapter 5: The Construction of the ‘West’ and the ‘Rest’ Reloaded by Isabelle Ihring and Faisal M. GarbaChapter 6: Self-Determination under Coloniality: Cultivating Open-mindedness in South-North Relationships by Jacques ZannouSection II: Understanding the Postcolonial PresentForeword by Nomaswazi MthombeniChapter 7: Can Human Rights Help [re]build Community? by Oche Onazi Chapter 8: The Paradigm of the Camp: COVID-19 and Pandemic Politics in Racialized Capitalism by Robel Abay, Tanja Kleibl, Caroline Schmitt and Nikos XypolytasChapter 9: Examining the Colonial and Apartheid Socio-economic Intersectionalities during COVID-19 in South Africa : Implications for Social Policy and Social Justice by Minenhle Matela and Ndangwa NoyooChapter 10: From the Kitchen Table to the Streets: Queer of Colour Reflections on Racial Capitalism by Jin HaritawornChapter 11: School as a Place of Self-experience: Knowledge about Racism from the Perspective of Subjects Who Experience Racism in Germany by Yasmina Gandouz-Touati, Veronika Kourabas, and Paul MecherilChapter 12: The Transatlantic Trade with Enslaved People: Dehumanizing Effects of Slavery and Colonialism upon the Enslaved People by Joseph WolsingChapter 13: When the Circle is Closing: On the Motivation of People of African Descent to Leave Their Home Countries to Live in Ghana by Isabelle IhringSection III: Imagining the Decolonial FutureForeword by Céline BarryChapter 14: Resistance and Creating Spaces for Transformation with Smai Tawi/Kemetic Yoga in Germany by Cassandra EllerbeChapter 15: The Importance of Transnational Solidarity in Shaping the Decolonization of Social Work by Janet Ananias and Ursula Kämmerer-Ru¨ttenChapter 16: Conversation with the Specters of the Camp: Thinking Refugee Resistance through the Lens of the Mass Strike and Convivial Futurity by Céline BarryChapter 17: Decolonizing Development Studies: Social Work in the African Perspective and Social Work Considerations in Africa by Zeldah U. Rukambe and Utjiua I. NdjoonduezuChapter 18: Exploring Transformative Relationships towards Decolonizing Social Work Education in Sylhet and Frankfurt by Chaitali Das and Tulshi Kumar DasIndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors

This volume offers a powerful transnational intervention into the persistent structures of coloniality that shape our current moment. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from across the Global South and North, it critically examines the geopolitics of racialized capitalism, migration regimes, and epistemic violence. The editors have curated a timely and urgent collection that resists the reductive framing of decolonization as metaphor and instead insists on accountability, relationality, and material transformation. It’s a valuable resource for those committed to unsettling dominant knowledge systems and imagining liberatory futures rooted in both refusal and solidarity.