Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms
About the Book Series
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Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms is a forum for original, critical research into the histories, legacies, and life-worlds of modern colonialism, postcolonialism, and contemporary coloniality. It analyses efforts to decolonise dominant and damaging forms of thinking and practice, and identifies, from around the world, diverse perspectives that encourage living and flourishing differently. Once the purview of a postcolonial studies informed by the cultural turn’s important focus on identity, language, text and representation, today’s resurgent critiques of coloniality are also increasingly informed, across the humanities and social sciences, by a host of new influences and continuing insights for different futures: indigeneity, critical race theory, relational ecologies, critical semiotics, posthumanisms, ontology, affect, feminist standpoints, creative methodologies, post-development, critical pedagogies, intercultural activisms, place-based knowledges, and much else. The series welcomes a range of contributions from socially engaged intellectuals, theoretical scholars, empirical analysts, and critical practitioners whose work attends, and commits, to newly rigorous analyses of alternative proposals for understanding life and living well on our increasingly damaged earth.
This series is aimed at upper-level undergraduates, research students and academics, appealing to scholars from a range of academic fields including human geography, sociology, politics and broader interdisciplinary fields of social sciences, arts and humanities.
Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War: The Poetics and Politics of Centenary Interventions
1st Edition
By Anna Branach-Kallas
August 29, 2025
Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War contributes to the imperial turn in First World War studies. This book provides an exploration of the ways in which war memory can be appropriated, neglected and disabled, but also “unlearned” and “decolonized”. The book offers an analysis of the ...
Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness: Movement, Method, Poethics
1st Edition
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By Michaeline A. Crichlow, Patricia M. Northover
May 21, 2025
This book, contextualized by the violence of globalization, investigates the fungible, fugitive, and untenable experiences of Black being and time through a decolonial poethics of global*Blackness. In so doing it introduces innovative readings of coloniality/decoloniality by threading its meaning ...
Decolonising Political Concepts
1st Edition
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By Valentin Clavé-Mercier, Marie Wuth
January 30, 2025
This book presents a transdisciplinary and transnational challenge to the enduring coloniality of political concepts, discussing the need to decolonise both their theoretical constructions as well as their substantive translations into practices. Despite the acclaimed twentieth-century ...
African Epistemologies in Higher Education Research
1st Edition
By Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo
December 18, 2024
Bringing a needed perspective on African Epistemologies on the critical topics of higher education in relation to knowledge systems, this book highlights how knowledge creation processes influence higher education systems, society, and African development. This book uses an interdisciplinary ...
Coloniality and Decolonisation in the Nordic Region
1st Edition
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By Adrián Groglopo, Julia Suárez-Krabbe
October 04, 2024
This book advances critical discussions about what coloniality, decoloniality, and decolonisation mean and imply in the Nordic region. It brings together analysis of complex realities from the perspectives of the Nordic peoples, a region that is often overlooked in current research, and explores ...
Decolonising Digital Media and Indigenisation of Participatory Epistemologies: Languages of the Global South
1st Edition
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By Fulufhelo Oscar Makananise, Shumani Eric Madima
August 13, 2024
The book provides valuable insights on decolonising the digital media landscape and the indigenisation of participatory epistemologies to continue the legacies of indigenous languages in the global South. It is one of its kind as it climaxes that the construction phase of self-determining and ...
Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties: The Haunted Choices of Economic Development
1st Edition
By Maureen Sioh
April 01, 2024
Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties argues that economic decisions reflect unconscious anxieties about survival and dignity experienced in a cycle of repeat trauma tracing back to the original trauma of loss in colonialism. Readers will understand how emerging economies evaluate the costs ...
Transdisciplinary Thinking from the Global South: Whose Problems, Whose Solutions?
1st Edition
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By Juan Carlos Finck Carrales, Julia Suárez-Krabbe
September 25, 2023
This book promotes constructive and nuanced transdisciplinary understandings of some of the critical problems that we face on a global scale today by thinking with and from the Global South. It is engaged in transmodernising, pluriversalising, decolonising, queering, and/or posthumanising thinking ...
A Decolonial Black Feminist Theory of Reading and Shade: Feeling the University
1st Edition
By Andrea N. Baldwin
May 31, 2023
This book uses a decolonial Black feminist lens to understand the contemporary significance of the practices and politics of indifference in United States higher education. It illustrates how higher education institutions are complicit in maintaining dominant social norms that perpetuate difference...
Crisis Urbanism and Postcolonial African Cities in Postmillennial Cinema
1st Edition
By Addamms Mututa
May 31, 2023
This book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives. Bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives on African crises through postmillennial films, the book addresses the need to situate global south cultural studies within the region. The book ...
Housing in the Aftermath of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe
1st Edition
By Lovemore Chipungu, Hangwelani Hope Magidimisha
May 31, 2023
This book delves into the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in Zimbabwe to provide insight into how it facilitated the delivery of housing for low-income urban households. It highlights the politics of land reforms and the power of community engagement in housing development in urban areas....
Political Values and Narratives of Resistance: Social Justice and the Fractured Promises of Post-colonial States
1st Edition
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By Fiona Anciano, Joanna Wheeler
May 31, 2023
This book brings together multidisciplinary perspectives to explore how political values and acts of resistance impact the delivery of social justice in post-colonial states. Everyday life in post-colonial states, such as South Africa and Zimbabwe, is characterized by injustices that have both a ...