The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory
Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni editor Sandeep Bakshi editor Jairo I Fúnez-Flores editor Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán editor Augustin Lao-Montes editor Flavia Rios editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd
Publishing:9th Aug '25
£135.00
This title is due to be published on 9th August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory is a pioneering resource that expands the epistemological and geographical horizons of decolonial thought. This handbook prioritizes the Global South, fostering North-South and South-South inter-epistemic dialogues and situating decolonial thought in sites of struggle. It builds on a foundation of Black, Indigenous, and campesino decolonial thought and praxis from regions such as Chile, Colombia, Brazil, and Guatemala.
Addressing the erasure of knowledge production from the Global South in dominant academic spaces, this handbook brings together decolonial scholars and activist intellectuals from the Global South and engages with scholars in the Global North. It emphasizes the ethics of knowledge production and the importance of collaborative projects with marginalized regions and communities.
Organized into five parts, the handbook includes conceptual essays and empirical studies on decolonial thought and praxis. It covers a range of topics from (de)coloniality, geopolitics, and transdisciplinarity to decolonial feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, racial capitalism, and Pan-Africanism. The chapters convey a sense of urgency and a committed political voice, demonstrating how decolonial theory can interrogate and intervene in the modern/colonial racial capitalist heteropatriarchal world.
The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory is not just for academics; it is written for anyone interested in radical thought and praxis. It recognizes decolonial theory as a plural and dynamic field, concerned with power relations, historiographical interventions, and epistemological critiques of Eurocentrism. Ultimately, it teaches us how to think with and act alongside others in the struggle for liberation.
Part I: Key Debates in Decolonial Theory
Part II: Geopolitics and Geographies
Part III: Transdisciplinarity
Part IV: Feminisms, Genders, & Sexualities
Part V: Racial Capitalism
The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory is a vital and urgent contribution to the ongoing struggles for liberation across the Global South and beyond. This volume resists the erasure of politically grounded knowledge and affirms the epistemic centrality of Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Palestinian thought and praxis in the fight against racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and heteropatriarchy. As the Palestinian Feminist Collective, we recognize this work as part of a larger struggle to dismantle the structures that sustain oppression and dispossession. We celebrate this Handbook for its commitment to inter-epistemic dialogue, its refusal to accommodate colonial knowledge production, and its insistence on theory as action—rooted in the lived realities of those resisting empire. Everyone engaged in academic organizing must read this book; it is an essential resource for scholars and activists committed to decolonial thought and practice.
-- The Palestinian Feminist Collective
This brilliantly conceptualized collection brings together a plurality of differently situated decolonial theories, analyses, empirics, and material practices, around the axes of the coloniality of power, of knowledge, of being, and of gender. It vastly opens up current discussions about relations of power, discourse, material conditions, and the many kinds and dimensions of political resistance, in important new ways. This astonishing transdisciplinary book will become a classic, indeed required reading, for the field.
-- Paola Bacchetta
ISBN: 9781529667813
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720 pages