Edited by Jyoti Puri, Professor of Sociology, Boston University, Boston and Vrushali Patil, Professor of Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

• ContentsPART I INTELLECTUAL ROADMAPS1 Canons and colonies: The global trajectory of sociology 23Raewyn Connell2 Frontiers of decolonization 36Swati Birla and Rashmi Kumari3 Du Boisian sociology and postcolonial sociology 50Ali Meghji4 Anti-colonial global social theory as meta theory. Its lineage, claims anddeliberations 66Sujata PatelPART II INDIGENOUS EPISTEMOLOGIES5 Decolonizing sociological epistemologies: Rethinking Palestine 88Areej Sabbagh-Khoury6 Sociologies of resistance: Gaza student encampments as sites of globalIndigeneity, placemaking, and solidarity 103Theresa Rocha Beardall, Eman Ghanayem and Sione Lynn Pili Lister7 Indigeneity’s resonance in reconciling the state: Where to now? 124Yvonne P. Sherwood8 Yuyariy: Four lessons to approach temporal order and reciprocity indecolonial and anticolonial research 142Tania AparicioPART III COLONIALITIES OF RACE AND CASTE9 Palimpsest racial scripts: US foreign policy and the disguising globalcolor-lines 160Angela Fillingim10 Beyond the color of reason. For an anticolonial sociology of race andadultcentrism 175Jorge Daniel Vásquez11 Raceless East Asians? Self-racialization of Japanese and South Koreanpeoples 196Veda Hyunjin Kim and Yen-Yu Lin12 Is caste an Orientalist and colonial construct? An epistemological &ontological Autopsy 215Bula Bhadra13 Decolonial genetics and racialized peoples after the post-genomic shift inCanada and the United States 227Arafaat ValianiPART IV GENDERED AND SEXUAL FORMATIONS14 The gendered grammar of coloniality. On the decolonization of the whitedoxa in gender sociological thinking 239Heidemarie Winkel15 Sexualities, genders and decolonizing queer sociological analysis 262Matthew Waites16 Rethinking colonial intimate relationships: A study on the intermarriagebetween the colonial Koreans and the imperial Japanese 280Aya Furuhashi17 Reclaiming the idea of a liberated African woman: Sankofaring as adecolonial methodological tool in African sociology 297Babalwa MagoqwanaPART V FUTURE PASTS18 Anti-colonial and transnational feminist writings: Relevance in the 21stcentury world 310Bandana Purkayastha19 Decolonizing sustainable development through autonomous knowledgesystems 329Francis Uldric T. San Juan20 The importance of autonomous social science traditions in the GlobalSouth – A manifesto 348Caroline M. Schöpf and Ramon Guillermo

‘This Handbook captures a momentous shift, which is elegantly mapped by the stellar cast of editors and contributors: from decades of critique of sociology’s Eurocentrism to placing concrete approaches critical of coloniality at the center of the discipline; from pluralizing modernity as a form of critique to pluralizing sociology itself.’