Indomitable Others and Liberal Violences
Critique, Contestation, and Resistance in World Politics
Bristol University Press
1st Edition
Published on 21. May 2026
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-5292-4437-3 (ISBN)
Description
This groundbreaking edited collection brings together diverse global perspectives to examine struggles against liberalisms through decolonial, postcolonial, Indigenous, feminist, queer, and intersectional lenses.
Prioritising grassroots experiences and subaltern voices, contributors from around the world explore three critical dimensions: resistance to liberal violence, the agency of those engaged in struggle and the complex challenges of transcending colonial legacies. Through rich case studies spanning continents, the volume reveals both commonalities and differences in experiences of contestation and resistance. It offers fresh insights into identity, recognition and difference in contemporary world politics while amplifying voices often marginalised in academic discourse.
Prioritising grassroots experiences and subaltern voices, contributors from around the world explore three critical dimensions: resistance to liberal violence, the agency of those engaged in struggle and the complex challenges of transcending colonial legacies. Through rich case studies spanning continents, the volume reveals both commonalities and differences in experiences of contestation and resistance. It offers fresh insights into identity, recognition and difference in contemporary world politics while amplifying voices often marginalised in academic discourse.
Reviews / Votes
"This collection of essays marks a vital intervention in the expanding conversation on the pluriverse, bringing together voices that span from early contributors to the most recent and provocative interventions. In contrast to its increasingly depoliticised deployment, this book reclaims the pluriverse as a deeply political and normative project, reinserting its emancipatory potential into global conversations. This is an important reading for IR scholars and decolonial theorists: it challenges us to rethink the terms of global coexistence, justice and world-making." Camilo Ardila, Associate Lecturer, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. "Unveiling worlds that survive liberalisms violence, Indomitable Others offers a timely and urgent contribution to the project of building a pluriverse." Robin Dunford, University of Brighton "Indomitable others skillfully maps the myriad weavings of refusals and relations blooming in the ruins of liberalism, summoning us to the emergent pluriverse." Arturo Escobar, author of Pluriversal Politics (2020) and co-author of Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human (2024) "The breadth of critiques, positionalities and alternative worldings offered in this book to unleash the restorative potential of pluriversality amidst the (liberal) compost is simply stunning." Arlene B. Tickner, Independent Scholar, Colombian Ambassador At-Large for Gender Issues and Feminist Global Policy "For those of us with one foot still in modernity, the essays in Indomitable Others prove at once humbling, disturbing, and hopeful, sometimes puzzling, and, ultimately, compelling." David Blaney, G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Political Science (Emeritus), Macalester CollegeMore details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-4437-3 (9781529244373)
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Indomitable Others and Liberal Violences
Critique, Contestation, and Resistance in World Politics
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Persons
Marcos S. Scauso is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, US.
Content
Foreword - Mustapha Kamal Pasha
Introduction: May it Bloom - Gabriella Colello
Part I: Liberal Violences: Death and Decay
1. The Traps of Liberalism's Many Lies - Laura Sjoberg
2. Inclusion for Pluriversality: Toward Another IR Pedagogy - Nancy E. Wright
3. Genocide in Myanmar: Citizenship as a Technology of Hetero-/mononormativity - Alyssa Arends
4. Institutionalized State Control of Justice, Violence, and Death - Shauna Gillooly
5. Sodomy, Sovereignty, and Empire: The Neoliberal Sexual State in Postcolonial India - Anna M. Agathangelou and Sudeshna Chatterjee
6. 'We're Going to Reconciliation the Shit Out Of You': Canadian Liberal Settler Violence and the Possibilities for True Reconciliation - Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles
7. Beyond Dichotomies: State-Making in Iraq, Social Reproduction, and Education - Massarah Dawood
Conclusion to Part I: Critique and Denunciation - Marcos S. Scauso
Part II: Resistances and Other-worldings: Rebirths
8. Defending the Divergent Coexistence between Ayllu Communities and the Colonial State in Bolivia: An Ontological Reading of Resistance against Colonial Liberalism - Cristina Rojas
9. Resisting the White Imaginary: Learning from Indigenous, Afrocolombian, Black, Raizal, and Rrom Peace Activists in Colombia - Maria Cardenas
10. Repudiating the 'Doctrine of Discovery' - Cecelia Lynch
11. Praying Against Extractivism: Epistemological Humility and the Pluriverse - Elane Westfaul
Conclusion to Part II: Other-worlding and Resistance - Marcos S. Scauso
Part III: Pluriversalizing: Growing Pains and the Complexity of Co-living
12. 'Our Way that was from Before Words Travelled': Democracy as Liberal Discipline and Pluriversal Connector - Garrett FitzGerald
13. Over-coming Liberalism: 'Care of the Self' and Ethical Horizons for the Pluriverse - Maggie FitzGerald
14. Concluding Thoughts: Denouncing Liberalisms, Worlding Resistances, and Sustaining Tensions for a 'Weak' Community in Difference - Marcos S. Scauso
Introduction: May it Bloom - Gabriella Colello
Part I: Liberal Violences: Death and Decay
1. The Traps of Liberalism's Many Lies - Laura Sjoberg
2. Inclusion for Pluriversality: Toward Another IR Pedagogy - Nancy E. Wright
3. Genocide in Myanmar: Citizenship as a Technology of Hetero-/mononormativity - Alyssa Arends
4. Institutionalized State Control of Justice, Violence, and Death - Shauna Gillooly
5. Sodomy, Sovereignty, and Empire: The Neoliberal Sexual State in Postcolonial India - Anna M. Agathangelou and Sudeshna Chatterjee
6. 'We're Going to Reconciliation the Shit Out Of You': Canadian Liberal Settler Violence and the Possibilities for True Reconciliation - Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles
7. Beyond Dichotomies: State-Making in Iraq, Social Reproduction, and Education - Massarah Dawood
Conclusion to Part I: Critique and Denunciation - Marcos S. Scauso
Part II: Resistances and Other-worldings: Rebirths
8. Defending the Divergent Coexistence between Ayllu Communities and the Colonial State in Bolivia: An Ontological Reading of Resistance against Colonial Liberalism - Cristina Rojas
9. Resisting the White Imaginary: Learning from Indigenous, Afrocolombian, Black, Raizal, and Rrom Peace Activists in Colombia - Maria Cardenas
10. Repudiating the 'Doctrine of Discovery' - Cecelia Lynch
11. Praying Against Extractivism: Epistemological Humility and the Pluriverse - Elane Westfaul
Conclusion to Part II: Other-worlding and Resistance - Marcos S. Scauso
Part III: Pluriversalizing: Growing Pains and the Complexity of Co-living
12. 'Our Way that was from Before Words Travelled': Democracy as Liberal Discipline and Pluriversal Connector - Garrett FitzGerald
13. Over-coming Liberalism: 'Care of the Self' and Ethical Horizons for the Pluriverse - Maggie FitzGerald
14. Concluding Thoughts: Denouncing Liberalisms, Worlding Resistances, and Sustaining Tensions for a 'Weak' Community in Difference - Marcos S. Scauso