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Decolonial Pluriversalism

Edited by Zahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun

Decolonial Pluriversalism offers a unique, powerful, and crucial perspective on decolonial theories, political thoughts, aesthetics, and activisms. In going beyond a postcolonial critique of eurocentrism, it provides some of the most original interventions in the field of decolonial theory. Drawing from the Francophone worlds, Latin American and Caribbean philosophies, it explores concepts of creolization, racialization, Afropean aesthetics, arts and cultural productions, feminisms, fashion, education, and architecture.

Contributors: Zahra Ali, Luis Martínez Andrade, Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, Jane Anna Gordon, Mariem Guellouz, Léopold Lambert, Alanna Lockward, Fátima Hurtado López, Olivier Marboeuf, Donna Edmonds Mitchell, Corinna Mullin, Marine Bachelot Nguyen, Minh-Ha T. Pham, Françoise Vergès, Patrice Yengo

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 190 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅜

978-1-5381-7505-7 • Hardback • June 2024 • $95.00 • (£73.00)

Series: Creolizing the Canon

Subjects: Philosophy / Political, Philosophy / Social, Philosophy / Epistemology

Decolonial Pluriversalism

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Decolonial Pluriversalism offers a unique, powerful, and crucial perspective on decolonial theories, political thoughts, aesthetics, and activisms. In going beyond a postcolonial critique of eurocentrism, it provides some of the most original interventions in the field of decolonial theory. Drawing from the Francophone worlds, Latin American and Caribbean philosophies, it explores concepts of creolization, racialization, Afropean aesthetics, arts and cultural productions, feminisms, fashion, education, and architecture.
Contributors: Zahra Ali, Luis Martínez Andrade, Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, Jane Anna Gordon, Mariem Guellouz, Léopold Lambert, Alanna Lockward, Fátima Hurtado López, Olivier Marboeuf, Donna Edmonds Mitchell, Corinna Mullin, Marine Bachelot Nguyen, Minh-Ha T. Pham, Françoise Vergès, Patrice Yengo

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 190 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅜

978-1-5381-7505-7 • Hardback • June 2024 • $95.00 • (£73.00)

Series: Creolizing the Canon

Subjects: Philosophy / Political, Philosophy / Social, Philosophy / Epistemology

Author

Zahra Ali is associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University-Newark. Her work explores (racial) capitalism, (post)coloniality, decolonial theory, and transnational feminisms as well as critical knowledge making and epistemologies with a focus on Iraq, the Middle East, and Muslim communities. She is the author of Women and Gender in Iraq, and founder of Critical Studies of Iraq, an initiative that centers the knowledge making and epistemologies of social scientists and feminists based in Iraq.
Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun is professor emerita of political sociology at the University of Paris Cité. Author of many books and articles, she is editor of Tumultes an interdisciplinary journal of critical political theory. She received the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association, and recently published L’impensé colonial des sciences sociales in collaboration with Aissa Kadri. Her forthcoming book But a Life is an intellectual autobiography.

Table of Contents

Look at Me
Donna Edmonds Mitchell
Introduction. Decolonial Pluriversalism
Zahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun
Part I: Toward New Epistemes
Chapter 1. Decolonizing is Being Present, Decolonizing is Fleeing
Olivier Marboeuf, translation from French by Aliya Ram
Chapter 2. Beyond Mere Criticism: Creolizing our Intellectual and Political Endeavors
Jane Anna Gordon
Chapter 3. Universalism or Pluriversalism: The Contributions of Latin American Philosophy
Fátima Hurtado López, translation from French by Aliya Ram
Chapter 4. Mundele:When in the Congo Basin, the Name of the “White Man” says Violence and Death
Patrice Yengo, translation from French by Aliya Ram
Part II: Decolonial Aesthetics
Chapter 5. Black Europe Body Politics. Towards an Afropean Decolonial Aesthetics
Alanna Lockward
Chapter 6. The Case for an Appropriate Discourse of Cultural Appropriation
Minh-Ha T. Pham
Chapter 7. Decolonizing One’s Theatre Fumblingly
Marine Bachelot Nguyen, translation from French by Aliya Ram
Chapter 8. Plural Contemporaneities: From the Construction of the Figure of the Oriental Dancer to a Contemporary Arab Dance
Mariam Guellouz, translation from French by Aliya Ram
Part III: Alternative Thoughts and Practices
Chapter 9. Decolonial Feminisms, Social Justice, and Anti-Imperialism
Françoise Vergès, translation from French by Aliya Ram
Chapter 10. Decolonizing Architecture
Léopold Lambert, translation from French by Aliya Ram
Chapter 11. Latin-American Pluriversal Feminisms and the Decolonial Turn
Luis Martínez Andrade, translation from French by Aliya Ram
Chapter 12. Tunisia’s Higher Education as a Site of (Neo)colonial Power and Decolonial Struggle
Corinna Mullin
Index
About the Editors, Translator and Authors

Reviews

Decolonial Pluriversalism is an exhilarating and powerfully poetic entrée for those of us in the Anglophone world, throwing us into the creative ways of existing, speaking, writing, and making knowledge that decolonial thought and practice from the creolizing Francophone world offers us as we all confront the violences of modernity.

— Lila Abu-Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University

Decolonial Pluversalism is written in a context in which Europe as the center of the world is finally provincialized. Opening the way, and carrying new epistemologies and alternative visions of knowledges situated in the wretched of the earth, these Legba of postcolonial/decolonial theories accompany all the possibilities of a pluriversal being drawn in front of our eyes.

— Jean Waddimir Gustinvil, professor of philosophy, State University of Haïti

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