Critical Perspectives on Decoloniality
Southern Epistemologies and Epistemologies of the Souths
Published on 16. September 2025
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Hardback
298 pages
978-1-83668-073-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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. * Jean Comaroff, Harvard University, USA * A fly in the ointment to the coloniality and cartesianism of north-centric "universal" theory, this volume enacts, through strategies of un-booking, onto-epistemological collaborations that promote new coalitions of understanding such that both the proverbial fly and the ointment learn and unlearn from each other in previously unsuspected, non-predatory ways. * Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Channel View Publications Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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Height: 251 mm
Width: 179 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
747 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83668-073-4 (9781836680734)
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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.
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.
Content
Contributors
Crain Soudien: Foreword
Sinfree Makoni, Dorothy Takyiakwaa, Vicky Khasandi-Telewa and Alissa J. Hartig: Introduction: Decoloniality and Southern Epistemologies as Alternatives
Part 1: Conceptions and Framings of Decoloniality: Contestations and Harmonies
Chapter 1. Lewis Gordon: Freedom, Justice and Decolonization
Chapter 2. Arturo Escobar: Beyond Monohumanism: An Emerging Narrative from Latin America
Chapter 3. Mamphela Ramphele and Sinfree Makoni: In Conversation with Mamphela Ramphele
Chapter 4. Marit Tolo Ostebo: Models as Viral Assemblages
Part 2: Epistemic (In)justices and Decolonization
Chapter 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 Freedom
Chapter 7. Julia Suarez-Krabbe: Over Our Dead Bodies: The Death Project, Egoism and the Existential Dimensions of Decolonization
Part 3: Cases of Colonization and Approaches to Decolonization
Chapter 8. Murad Idris: A Conversation About 'War for Peace'
Chapter 9. Frieda Ekotto: Reading Negritude Thinkers with Black Lives Matter
Chapter 10. Emiliano Trere: Key Challenges and Dangers in the Decolonization of Data (Studies)
Chapter 11. John Holmwood: Modern Capitalism as Colonialism
Chapter 12. Mary Louise Pratt: Planetarity and the Crisis of Knowledge: Dancing with the Trickster
Index
Crain Soudien: Foreword
Sinfree Makoni, Dorothy Takyiakwaa, Vicky Khasandi-Telewa and Alissa J. Hartig: Introduction: Decoloniality and Southern Epistemologies as Alternatives
Part 1: Conceptions and Framings of Decoloniality: Contestations and Harmonies
Chapter 1. Lewis Gordon: Freedom, Justice and Decolonization
Chapter 2. Arturo Escobar: Beyond Monohumanism: An Emerging Narrative from Latin America
Chapter 3. Mamphela Ramphele and Sinfree Makoni: In Conversation with Mamphela Ramphele
Chapter 4. Marit Tolo Ostebo: Models as Viral Assemblages
Part 2: Epistemic (In)justices and Decolonization
Chapter 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 Freedom
Chapter 7. Julia Suarez-Krabbe: Over Our Dead Bodies: The Death Project, Egoism and the Existential Dimensions of Decolonization
Part 3: Cases of Colonization and Approaches to Decolonization
Chapter 8. Murad Idris: A Conversation About 'War for Peace'
Chapter 9. Frieda Ekotto: Reading Negritude Thinkers with Black Lives Matter
Chapter 10. Emiliano Trere: Key Challenges and Dangers in the Decolonization of Data (Studies)
Chapter 11. John Holmwood: Modern Capitalism as Colonialism
Chapter 12. Mary Louise Pratt: Planetarity and the Crisis of Knowledge: Dancing with the Trickster
Index