Critical Perspectives on Decoloniality : Southern Epistemologies and Epistemologies of the Souths.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Takyiakwaa, Dorothy.

Contributor:

Makoni, Sinfree.

Khasandi-Telewa, Inviolata Vicky.

Hartig, Alissa J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--Philosophy.

Decolonization.

Social epistemology--Developing countries.

Social epistemology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Multilingual Matters, 2025.

Summary:

This book is both a deep dive into and a critique of foundational decolonial concepts and epistemologies, engaging both theoretical analyses of social issues and standpoints from activism. The book represents a critical intervention on decolonial theories and methodologies, and will be of interest to scholars, students and activists.

Contents:

Introduction / Sinfree Makoni, Dorothy Takyiakwaa, Vicky Khasandi-Telewa, and Alissa J. Hartig

Freedom, justice, and decolonization / Lewis Gordon

Beyond monohumanism : an emerging narrative from Latin America / Arturo Escobar

In conversation with Mamphela Ramphele / Mamphela Ramphele and Sinfree Makoni

Models as viral assemblages / Marit Tolo Østebø

Colonialism and the framing of social theory : a hundred year history / Sujata Patel

Cross-examining epistemic violence and working towards epistemic freedom / Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Over our dead bodies : the death project, egoism, and the existential dimensions of decolonization / Julia Suárez-Krabbe

A conversation about 'war for peace' / Murad Idris

Reading negritude thinkers with Black Lives Matter / Frieda Ekotto

Key challenges and dangers in the decolonization of data (studies) / Emiliano Treré

Modern capitalism as colonialism / John Holmwood

Planetarity and the crisis of knowledge : dancing with the trickster/ Mary Louise Prat.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-83668-074-0

1-83668-075-9

OCLC:

1531326035