Decolonial Pluriversalism

Zahra Ali is associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University-Newark. Her work explores (racial) capitalism, (post)coloniality, decolonial theory, and transnational feminisms as well as critical knowledge making and epistemologies with a focus on Iraq, the Middle East, and Muslim communities. She is the author of Women and Gender in Iraq, and founder of Critical Studies of Iraq, an initiative that centers the knowledge making and epistemologies of social scientists and feminists based in Iraq. Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun is professor emerita of political sociology at the University of Paris Cité. Author of many books and articles, she is editor of Tumultes an interdisciplinary journal of critical political theory. She received the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association, and recently published L’impensé colonial des sciences sociales in collaboration with Aissa Kadri. Her forthcoming book But a Life is an intellectual autobiography.

Decolonial Pluriversalism is an exhilarating and powerfully poetic entrée for those of us in the Anglophone world, throwing us into the creative ways of existing, speaking, writing, and making knowledge that decolonial thought and practice from the creolizing Francophone world offers us as we all confront the violences of modernity.

• Look at MeDonna Edmonds MitchellIntroduction. Decolonial PluriversalismZahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-HerzbrunPart I: Toward New EpistemesChapter 1. Decolonizing is Being Present, Decolonizing is FleeingOlivier Marboeuf, translation from French by Aliya RamChapter 2. Beyond Mere Criticism: Creolizing our Intellectual and Political EndeavorsJane Anna GordonChapter 3. Universalism or Pluriversalism: The Contributions of Latin American PhilosophyFátima Hurtado López, translation from French by Aliya RamChapter 4. Mundele:When in the Congo Basin, the Name of the “White Man” says Violence and DeathPatrice Yengo, translation from French by Aliya RamPart II: Decolonial AestheticsChapter 5. Black Europe Body Politics. Towards an Afropean Decolonial AestheticsAlanna LockwardChapter 6. The Case for an Appropriate Discourse of Cultural AppropriationMinh-Ha T. PhamChapter 7. Decolonizing One’s Theatre Fumblingly Marine Bachelot Nguyen, translation from French by Aliya RamChapter 8. Plural Contemporaneities: From the Construction of the Figure of the Oriental Dancer to a Contemporary Arab DanceMariam Guellouz, translation from French by Aliya RamPart III: Alternative Thoughts and PracticesChapter 9. Decolonial Feminisms, Social Justice, and Anti-ImperialismFrançoise Vergès, translation from French by Aliya RamChapter 10. Decolonizing ArchitectureLéopold Lambert, translation from French by Aliya RamChapter 11. Latin-American Pluriversal Feminisms and the Decolonial TurnLuis Martínez Andrade, translation from French by Aliya RamChapter 12. Tunisia’s Higher Education as a Site of (Neo)colonial Power and Decolonial StruggleCorinna MullinIndexAbout the Editors, Translator and Authors