Roads to Decolonisation: An Introduction to Thought from the Global South is an accessible textbook that provides undergraduate students with a vital introduction to theory from the Global South and key issues of social justice.
Roads to Decolonisation: An Introduction to Thought from the Global South is an accessible new textbook that provides undergraduate students with a vital introduction to theory from the Global South and key issues of social justice, arming them with the tools to theorise and explain the social world away from dominant Global North perspectives. Arranged in four parts, it examines
- key thinkers, activists and theory-work from the Global South;
- theoretical concepts and socio-historical conditions associated with 'race' and racism, gender and sexuality, identity and (un)belonging in a globalised world and decolonisation and education;
- challenges to dominant Euro-American perspectives on key social justice issues, linking decolonial discourses to contemporary case studies.
Each chapter offers an overview of key thinkers and activists whose work engages with social justice issues, many of whom are under-represented or left out of undergraduate humanities and social sciences textbooks in the North. This is essential reading for students of the humanities and social sciences worldwide, as well as scholars keen to embed Southern thought in their curricula and pedagogical practice.
Introduction
Part
1. Race and Racism
1. Imperialism, Colonialism and the Racialised Other: W.E.B du Bois, Aimé
Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said and Ngg wa Thiong'o
2.
Chapter 2 Race and Racism as Systems of Power: Lewis R. Gordon, Paul
Gilroy, Stuart Hall, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kwame Anthony Appiah and
Ambalavaner Sivanandan
3. Black Feminist Thought and Intersectionality: Sojourner Truth, Audre
Lorde, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Patricia Hill Collins, Kimberlé Crenshaw
Part
2. Gender and Sexuality
4. Imperialism, Colonial Discourse and Women: Anne McClintock, Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Uma Nayaran and Nira
Yuval-Davies
5. The Politicisation and Sexualisation of Black Womanhood: Audre Lorde,
Angela Y. Davis, bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins
6. African Feminist Thought: Ifi Amadiume, Obioma Nnaemeka, Oyčrónk
Oywłmķ, Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu and Florence Stratton
7. Queer perspectives: Pumla Dineo Gqola, Marc Epprecht, Kopano Ratele and
Sara Ahmed
Part
3. Identity and (Un)belonging in a Globalised World
8. (Under)Development, Modernity, and Epistemologies of the South: Walter
Rodney, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Simon Gikandi and Achille Mbembe
9. Identity, Migration, Mobility and Diaspora: Homi Bhabha, Arjun Appadurai,
Samir Amin and Avtar Brah
10. Citizenship, Nationalism and Xenophobia: A South African Case Study
Part
4. Decolonisation and Education
11. Decolonial Feminisms: Franēoise Vergčs, Awino Okech, Sara Ahmed, Heidi
Safia Mirza, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Sylvia Tamale
12. Criminological and Social Theory and Methods, Settler Colonialism and the
Indigenous Context: Biko Agozino, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Thalia Anthony and
Harry Blagg, Chris Cunneen and Simone Rowe, and Raewyn Connell
13. Pedagogies of the South and Ubuntu as a Feminist Decolonial Pedagogy:
Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Sylvia Tamale, Leonhard
Praeg, Ezra Chitando and Siphokazi Magadla, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni,
Nomalungelo I. Ngubane and Manyane Makua
Amy Duvenage is a lecturer in criminology at Solent University, Southampton. Her teaching and research is interdisciplinary, intersecting across several disciplines including criminology, gender studies, literature, and sociology. She has a particular interest in gender theory, decoloniality, intersectionality and thought from the Global South.
