Del 7 - Global Forum on Southern Epistemologies

Critical Perspectives on Decoloniality

Southern Epistemologies and Epistemologies of the Souths

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Dorothy Takyiakwaa, Sinfree Makoni, Inviolata Vicky Khasandi-Telewa, Alissa J. Hartig

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-09-16
Mått174 x 245 x 16 mm
Vikt520 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGlobal Forum on Southern Epistemologies
Antal sidor298
FörlagChannel View Publications Ltd
ISBN9781836680727

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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.

ContributorsCrain Soudien: ForewordSinfree Makoni, Dorothy Takyiakwaa, Vicky Khasandi-Telewa and Alissa J. Hartig: Introduction: Decoloniality and Southern Epistemologies as AlternativesPart 1: Conceptions and Framings of Decoloniality: Contestations and HarmoniesChapter 1. Lewis Gordon: Freedom, Justice and DecolonizationChapter 2. Arturo Escobar: Beyond Monohumanism: An Emerging Narrative from Latin America Chapter 3. Mamphela Ramphele and Sinfree Makoni: In Conversation with Mamphela RampheleChapter 4. Marit Tolo Østebø: Models as Viral AssemblagesPart 2: Epistemic (In)justices and DecolonizationChapter 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 FreedomChapter 7. Julia Suárez-Krabbe: Over Our Dead Bodies: The Death Project, Egoism and the Existential Dimensions of DecolonizationPart 3: Cases of Colonization and Approaches to DecolonizationChapter 8. Murad Idris: A Conversation About ‘War for Peace’Chapter 9. Frieda Ekotto: Reading Négritude Thinkers with Black Lives MatterChapter 10. Emiliano Treré: Key Challenges and Dangers in the Decolonization of Data (Studies)Chapter 11. John Holmwood: Modern Capitalism as ColonialismChapter 12. Mary Louise Pratt: Planetarity and the Crisis of Knowledge: Dancing with the TricksterIndex

At a dark time in our history, this volume offers a rare lifeline. Speaking from places long marginal to the centers of planetary power, the authors in conversation here grapple with the contradictions so disfiguring civilization and society in the Global North. In proposing alternative, more generative ‘Southern’ sites for collective thinking and learning, they give acute, tangible meaning to the often-elusive task of decolonizing the production of knowledge.