Decolonizing Knowledge - by Radha D'Souza & Sunera Thobani (Hardcover)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

This book reflects on texts from anti-colonial thinkers of the past - J.P.S. Uberoi, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, C.L.R. James and Andaiye, among others - to draw out earlier generations' understandings of decolonization. Contributors writing from multiple disciplines provide key insights from their thinking and examine their relevance for contemporary struggles for racial, gender and class justice. These essays straddle a range of themes from theory and practice, art and literature, gender and identity, and political economy, to address a subject that is preoccupying academia and activists in the 21st century.

Review Quotes

"This exciting and thought-provoking collection looks at how colonial knowledge is produced and resisted in locales and by people not always given due consideration in mainstream theory and politics." --Nivi Manchanda, Reader in International Politics, Queen Mary University of London, UK

"In a time when the practice of decoloniality is getting increasingly distracted by superficial propositions, neocolonial appropriations and banal jargon, this edited volume brings in fresh air of hope that there is still a possibility to revive the practical intentions with which decolonial movements were born." --Sayan Dey, Assistant Professor of English, Bayan College, Oman, and author of Garbocracy: Towards a Great Human Collapse (2024)

"An essential and timely work, this volume illuminates foundational perspectives on decolonization, offering a "back to the classics" approach that revisits the deeper traditions of Third World anti-colonial and anti-racist thought. Rooting current manifestations of decolonization in the works of Fanon, Cesaire, Mariátegui, Du Bois, Uberoi, Dutt, Rodney and others, the chapters powerfully challenge the institutional cooptation of the decolonial in academia and reframe it in connection to a broader societal and global project." --Gabriela Veronelli, Professor of Latin American Philosophy and Decolonial Theory, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina

About the Author

Radha D'Souza is Professor of Law, Development and Conflict Studies at the University of Westminster, UK. She is a lawyer, social justice activist, writer and commentator. Together with Dutch artist Jonas Staal she is co-founder of the art project Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes.

Sunera Thobani is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her publications include Exalted Subjects (2007); Contesting Islam, Constructing Race and Sexuality (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020); and Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University (2022). She is founding member of Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equity (RACE, 2001).