Critical Perspectives on Decoloniality

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.

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.

• ContributorsCrain Soudien: ForewordSinfree Makoni, Dorothy Takyiakwaa, Vicky Khasandi-Telewa and Alissa J. Hartig: Introduction: Decoloniality and Southern Epistemologies as AlternativesPart 1: Conceptions and Framings of Decoloniality: Contestations and HarmoniesChapter 1. Lewis Gordon: Freedom, Justice and DecolonizationChapter 2. Arturo Escobar: Beyond Monohumanism: An Emerging Narrative from Latin America              Chapter 3. Mamphela Ramphele and Sinfree Makoni: In Conversation with Mamphela RampheleChapter 4. Marit Tolo Østebø: Models as Viral AssemblagesPart 2: Epistemic (In)justices and DecolonizationChapter 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 FreedomChapter 7. Julia Suárez-Krabbe: Over Our Dead Bodies: The Death Project, Egoism and the Existential Dimensions of DecolonizationPart 3: Cases of Colonization and Approaches to DecolonizationChapter 8. Murad Idris: A Conversation About ‘War for Peace’Chapter 9. Frieda Ekotto: Reading Négritude Thinkers with Black Lives MatterChapter 10. Emiliano Treré: Key Challenges and Dangers in the Decolonization of Data (Studies)Chapter 11. John Holmwood: Modern Capitalism as ColonialismChapter 12. Mary Louise Pratt: Planetarity and the Crisis of Knowledge: Dancing with the TricksterIndex