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A Critical Synergy
Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises
Ali Meghji
- 210 pages
- English
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A Critical Synergy
Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises
Ali Meghji
About This Book
Practitioners of decolonial theory and critical race theory (CRT) often use one or the other, but not both. In his provocative book, A Critical Synergy, Ali Meghji suggests using the two theories in tandem rather than attempting to hierarchize or synthesize them. Doing so allows for the study of social phenomena in a way that captures their global and historical roots, while acknowledging their local, national, and contemporary particularities.The differences between decolonial thought and CRT, Meghji insists, does not necessarily imply one approach is stronger. Rather, he asserts, they often provide alternative but not incompatible viewpoints of the same social problem. Meghji presents case studies of capitalism, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis, and twenty-first-century far-right populism to show that with both theories, we can understand more, as insights may be lost by using only one.Meghji is not calling for a universal theoretical synthesis in A Critical Synergy, but rather a practice that can help open sociology and social science to the tradition of pluriversality much more broadly.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Star-Crossed Lovers? Decolonial Thought and Critical Race Theory
- 1. Against Zero-Point Epistemology: Delinking, Border Thinking, and Counter-storytelling
- 2. When Postcolonial Melancholia Meets Post-racial Ideology: On Right-Wing Populism
- 3. National Abjects in the âFourth World Warâ: Crises of Neoliberal Capitalism
- 4. Environmental Racism and the Logic of Coloniality
- 5. When Universalism Kills, When Post-racialism Exonerates: COVID-19 and the Myth of a âGreat Resetâ
- Conclusion. âA World in Which Many Worlds Fitâ: Decolonial Thought and Critical Race Theory in the Pluriverse
- Notes
- References
- Index