Global Forum on Southern Epistemologies Critical Perspectives Decoloniality

This book is both a deep dive into and a critique of foundational decolonial concepts and epistemologies, engaging both theoretical analyses of social issues and standpoints from activism. The book represents a critical intervention on decolonial theories and methodologies, and will be of interest to scholars, students and activists. This book is both a deep dive into and a critique of foundational decolonial concepts and epistemologies, engaging both historical, theoretical analyses of social issues and conditions, and standpoints from activism. The chapters are situated within multiple, plural and shifting force fields within the academy, and present a pathway to critically engage political or academic practices within and outside the university. The authors specifically engage contestations and harmonies in approaches of decoloniality, epistemic injustices, Southern epistemologies and epistemologies of the Souths. Alongside the theoretical chapters sit interventions on self-liberation, healing, reconstitution of human life, embracing interdependence and defying boundaries. The book represents a critical intervention in the development of decolonial theories and methodologies, and will be of interest to scholars, students and activists within and outside of academia.