This book brings together 11 prominent scholars and political activists to discuss and explore issues around postcolonialism, decoloniality, Theories of the South and Epistemologies of the South. These wide-ranging discussions touch upon issues from academic research methods and writing conventions to global struggles for justice. Together the chapters, as well as the interventions from forum participants which are characteristic of this series, paint a complex and dynamic picture of areas of thought and action that are constantly evolving in response to the demands of a world in flux. The book is a major intervention in current debates about the geopolitics of knowledge, as well as an illustration of the ways in which scholarship in the Global North(s) is indebted to the diverse traditions of scholarship in the Global South(s).
Tabela de Conteúdo
Acknowledgments and Gratitude
Foreword
Chapter 1. Sinfree Makoni, Anna Kaiper-Marquez and Bassey Antia: Introduction
Chapter 2. Jean Comaroff: Theory from the South: Thinking Out Loud About Decolonization
Chapter 3. Boaventura de Sousa Santos: Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide
Chapter 4. Molefi Kete Asante: Upending the Inhuman: Decoloniality, Postmodernism and Afrocentricity
Chapter 5. Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo: The Politics of Language, Memory and Knowledge
Chapter 6. Drucilla Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne: u Buntu, Nite and the Struggle for Global Justice
Chapter 7. Catherine Walsh and Walter Mignolo: Foundational Concepts and Struggles for Dignity and Life
Chapter 8. Linda Tuhiwai Smith: Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Clarissa Jordao: Epilogue: The South Writing Back
Index
Sobre o autor
Magda Madany-Saá is a Ph D Candidate in Curriculum & Instruction in the College of Education, and a TESL Instructor at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. Her research interests include decolonial theory and methodology, critical interculturality, language policy and translingualism. She has experience teaching Spanish in Poland and English in Ecuador, as well as training in-service English teachers in Latin America.