Anti-Colonial Global Scholarship - (Decolonization and Social Worlds) by Sujata Patel & Maureen A Eger (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This volume brings together key scholars from across the globe to explore anti-colonial and anti-imperial perspectives to help transform our ways of the looking at the world. Collectively, these chapters introduce new frameworks and methodologies that challenge the dominance of Western paradigms while highlighting the multiplicity of issues and themes emerging from colonialized countries, past and present.

By rethinking the foundational assumptions of European history and society, this book offers new frameworks to comprehend the past and future of social science and humanities, while inspiring readers to approach knowledge about human societies through a truly global, anti-colonial lens.

Review Quotes

'What is the place of the anti-colonial in the wide array of both classic and more recent approaches dealing with colonial legacies? Rather than providing one answer, this rich and erudite volume offers a unique theoretical and methodological compass. It points its readers towards more than one possible path through the maze of neocolonial, post- and decolonial, inter- and postimperial approaches while grounding the search in the experiences and perspectives of the Global South.' Manuela Boatcă, University of Freiburg

'This is an impressive survey of an emerging field of knowledge, as social science grapples with empire and imperialism, past and present. Invasions, resistances, racisms and forms of knowledge are examined in chapters that range from broad proposals for integrating this new field to vivid accounts of contemporary power, violence and oppression.' Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney

'This anthology is a valuable contribution to ongoing debates on empire, colonialism and decolonisation, highlighting the importance of anticolonialism within these discussions. It engages a range of generative topics and sites, offering a much-needed set of informed perspectives to social theory.' Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge

About the Author

Sujata Patel is Professor Emerita at the University of Hyderabad in India and a Visiting Scholar at the Freiburg Advanced Studies Centre in Germany.

Maureen A. Eger is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Umeå University in Sweden and a 2024-25 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in the United States.