Thorsten Botz-Bornstein is Professor of Philosophy at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait. He was born in Germany, studied philosophy in Paris, and received his Ph.D. from Oxford University. He works on comparative philosophy (Buddhism, Daoism, Sufism) and aesthetics on which he has numerous publications.

• ContentsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: Woke against Woke?Thorsten Botz-BornsteinPART 1Aspects of Woke Politics2 The Afterlives of Wokeness and the Limits of Epistemic ColonialismIgnacio López-Calvo3 Global Woke against Local ProgressChristopher Mott4 The Anti-woke Movement in AmericaCarol Burke5 Can We Laugh about It? Based Heroes and Comedic License in the WestJibril Latif6 Wokeism: “A Civil Religion in the Age of Profilicity”?Hans-Georg Moeller7 Unsaying Wokeism, or the Role of Self-Critique in Judging OthersWilliam Franke8 “Wokeism” and Catharism: On Religions That Might Have ExistedAlejandro Carpio9 Curing and Caring through Art: Memory and Memorials in Times of Changing Interpretation of the Contested PastZoltán Somhegyi10 Wokeism and Democracy: A Terrible MixTommaso OstillioPART 2Global Woke11 Ṣawābiyyah and Wūkiyyah: Tracking Political Correctness and Wokeism in Arabic Language and Muslim-Majority Arab ContextsNesma Elsakaan12 Africa’s Contemporary Wokeness as a Summon for Embodying the Common GoodSimonMary Asese Aihiokhai13 The Woke Monroe Doctrine: Pinkwashing the New Iteration of US Interventionism in MexicoAndrea Martinez14 Is Decoloniality Latin American Wokeism? Examining Identity and Politics in the Works of Santiago Castro-Gómez and Walter MignoloManuel Rivera Espinoza15 Tracing Wokeism: The Case of Batallon Ayacucho in Manizales, Colombia, in Post-conflict RealityAngela M. González Echeverry16 Wokeism in Japan: Tensions around Social Minorities and Navigating Human RightsSatoshi Narihara and Lee Jiyeon17 Social Death and Loss of Face: A Chinese Wokeism?Chiang Hio Fai18 Wokeism in Ibn ʿArabi’s Spiritual LawIsmail Lala19 The Concept of “Wokeism” in Islamic Legal PhilosophyEmine Enise YakarIndex