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.
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 ...
The Coloniality of Modern Taste: A Critique of Gastronomic Thought
1st Edition
By Zilkia Janer
December 30, 2022
This book analyzes the coloniality of the concept of taste that gastronomy constructed and normalized as modern. It shows how gastronomy’s engagement with rationalist and aesthetic thought, and with colonial and capitalist structures, led to the desensualization, bureaucratization and racialization...
Decolonising Schools in South Africa: The Impossible Dream?
1st Edition
By Pam Christie
May 06, 2022
This book explores the challenge of dismantling colonial schooling and how entangled power relations of the past have lingered in post-apartheid South Africa. It examines the ‘on the ground’ history of colonialism from the vantage point of a small town in the Karoo region, showing how patterns of ...
Making Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning through Southern Cities
1st Edition
By Mary Lawhon
December 13, 2021
This book facilitates more careful engagement with the production, politics and geography of knowledge as scholars create space for the inclusion of southern cities in urban theory.Making Urban Theory addresses debates of the past fifty years regarding whether and why scholars should conceptualize ...
National Security and Policy in America: Immigrants, Crime, and the Securitization of the Border
1st Edition
By Wesley McCann, Francis Boateng
August 02, 2021
This book investigates the strategic use of America’s historical crime control, counterterrorism, national security and immigration policies as a mechanism in the modern-day Trump administration to restrict migration and refugee settlement with a view of promoting national security and preservation...
Populism and Postcolonialism
1st Edition
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By Adrián Scribano, Maximiliano E. Korstanje, Freddy Timmermann López
June 30, 2021
This book investigates the interconnections between populism and neoliberalism through the lens of postcolonialism. Its primary focus is to build a distinct understanding of the concept of populism as a political movement in the twenty-first century, interwoven with the lasting effects of ...
Arendt, Fanon and Political Violence in Islam
1st Edition
By Patrycja Sasnal
March 31, 2021
This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south.It explores the relationship of Arendt’s thought, mostly as expressed in...
Postcolonialism, Indigeneity and Struggles for Food Sovereignty: Alternative food networks in subaltern spaces
1st Edition
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By Marisa Wilson
September 30, 2020
This book explores connections between activist debates about food sovereignty and academic debates about alternative food networks. The ethnographic case studies demonstrate how divergent histories and geographies of people-in-place open up or close off possibilities for alternative/sovereign food...
History, Imperialism, Critique: New Essays in World Literature
1st Edition
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By Asher Ghaffar
June 30, 2020
This book examines anti-imperialist thought in European philosophy. It features an international group of both emerging and established scholars who directly respond to Timothy Brennan’s far-reaching call to rethink intellectual histories, literary histories, and the reading habits of ...
Coloniality, Ontology, and the Question of the Posthuman
1st Edition
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By Mark Jackson
December 12, 2019
This book brings together emerging insights from across the humanities and social sciences to highlight how postcolonial studies are being transformed by increasingly influential and radical approaches to nature, matter, subjectivity, human agency, and politics. These include decolonial studies, ...
Unsettling Eurocentrism in the Westernized University
1st Edition
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By Julie Cupples, Ramon Grosfoguel
August 14, 2018
The westernized university is a site where the production of knowledge is embedded in Eurocentric epistemologies that are posited as objective, disembodied and universal and in which non-Eurocentric knowledges, such as black and indigenous ones, are largely marginalized or dismissed. Consequently, ...