Learning Disobedience

Amber Murrey is an Associate Professor of Political Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford. Her award-winning scholarship on political ecologies and economies in Central Africa focuses on dissent and resistance amidst racialised extractive violence. Amber is the editor of 'A Certain Amount of Madness': The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara and Associate Editor of The African Geographical Review.Patricia Daley is Professor of the Human Geography of Africa and The Helen Morag Fellow in Geography at Jesus College, Oxford. She co-edited, with Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, The Routledge Handbook on South-South Relations.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Learning Disobedience from the Heart of Empire1. Coloniality, Racial Logics and the Ethos of International Development2. Impoverishment is an Active Process: Capitalism and Development3. Development and Violence/Development as Violence4. Development Without the Peoples of the Global South5. Resistance and Autonomous Spaces Beyond the NGO: Marronage, Social Movements and Hashtag Dissent6. Critiquing Heteronormativity and the Male Gaze: Queering Development and Beyond7. Decolonizing the State and Reworlding: Global Imaginaries of Liberated Futures8. Beyond Tokenism: Pluriversals and Decolonizing Solidarity for Thriving and Dignified FuturesConclusionsIndex

'Murrey and Daley take no prisoners in their sharp decolonial analysis, they are not apologetic in their decolonial critique development, and they are fired up in their envisioning of the future. 'Learning Disobedience' is far from a post-development treatise, it is a work of dismantlement of that which harms humanity in the name of humanity.'