Geopolitics and Decolonization

Fernanda Frizzo Bragato is Professor of Human Rights and Coordinator of the Law Graduate Program at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil.Lewis R. Gordon is Professor of Philosophy, with affiliations in Caribbean and Latinx Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, Jewish Studies, and International Studies, at the University of Connecticut at Storrs; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; and Chair of Global Collaborations for the Caribbean Philosophical Association. His most recent books are his forthcoming monograph Fear of Black Consciousness and his forthcoming collection of essays 论哲学、去殖民化与种族 (“On Philosophy, Decolonization, and Race”).

• Introduction / Part I: Justice, Human Rights, and Change from the Global South / 1. The Logic of Coloniality and the Denial of Rights to Less-Human Beings, Fernanda Frizzo Bragato / 2. When Justice Is Not Enough: Toward the Decolonization of Normative Life, Lewis Gordon / 3. Suma Qamaña = The Good Living Together, Xavier Albó / 4. Ubuntu and African Decolonization: The Case of South Africa, Jean-Bosco Kakozi Kashindi / 5. Neopanafricanism As an Ideology of Political and Economic Unity in the African Post-Colony, Mbuyi Kabunda / 6. Antropophagy and Grounds of Brazilian Constitutional Thought, André Leonardo Copetti Santos and Doglas Cesar Lucas / Part II: Other Geopolitics: Knowledge, International Relations and Law from the Global South / 7. Interregional Cooperation between Latin America and Africa, Gladys Lechini / 8. The Circulation of Social and Economic Ideas of Latin America and the Caribbean in Asia and Africa, Eduardo Devés-Valdes / 9. Decolonizing the Social Sciences in Sub-Saharan Africa, Germain Ngoie Tshibambe / 10. The Recognition of the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Based on an Autopoietic Reconfiguration of the Latin American Legal Systems, Leonel Severo Rocha / 11. Indigenous Rights in Brazil: Constitutional Jurisprudence and Hermeneutics Review, Enzo Bello and César Augusto Baldi / 12. Colonial Legacies of Coercive Control: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence as International Crimes in Africa and Latin America, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum / 13. The Role of Africa in the Foreign Policy of China, Cesar Ross / Index

Geopolitics and Decolonization offers a timely contribution to contemporary critical scholarship interested in fields such as international relations, law, human rights, political philosophy, and development studies. A collective work of excellent scholarship, it addresses ideas, developments and concerns from the Global South, which are otherwise largely ignored, however crucial to our understanding of our pluriversal world.