The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sandeep Bakshi, Augustin Lao-Montes, Flavia Rios

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9781529667813
• eBook ISBN: 9781036202293
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politica e relazioni internazionali
• Subtopic: Colonialismo e post-colonialismo

The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory is a groundbreaking transdisciplinary resource that expands the epistemological and geographical horizons of decolonial thought. This handbook prioritizes the Global South, fostering South-North and South-South inter-epistemic dialogues and situating decolonial thought in sites of struggle. It builds on  decolonial thought and praxis from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Palestine, among other regions and countries. 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 politically committed scholars in the Global North. It emphasizes the geopolitics and ethics of knowledge production and the importance of situating one's work in historically excluded 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 feminisms, gender and sexuality studies, and racial capitalism. 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 hierarchies, historiography, and epistemological critiques of Eurocentrism. Ultimately, it teaches us how to think with and act alongside struggles 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

 

 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Illustration List
• Notes on Editors and Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I Key Debates in Decolonial Theory
• 1 The Coloniality of Power and Social Classification
• 2 Decolonial Praxis and Decolonizing Paths: Notes for These Times
• 3 Palestine, the War Against Decolonization, and Combative Decoloniality
• 4 Encruzilhada: The Concept of Crossroads in the Afro-Diasporic Cosmovision as a Decolonizing Theoretical Practice
• 5 The Struggle for the Decolonial Liberation of Palestine
• 6 Occupations of Language: Queer Praxis Grounding Decolonial Approaches1
• 7 A Never-Ending Historicity: The Antifuturist Discourses of Abya Yala and Their Confrontation With the Finite Time of Western Modernity1
• 8 Decoloniality Is Agency
• 9 Insurgent Decoloniality: Situating Thought in Sites of Struggle
• 10 Decolonial Social Theory: Co-optation and the Problem With the Epistemic Turn
• Part II Geopolitics and Geographies
• 11 Demystifying Decolonization: Reclaiming Palestinian Authorship of Their Destiny
• 12 We Can’t Theorize Without an Image of the World: Toward a Heterogeneous, Relational, and Planetary Imagination
• 13 The Earth of the (Un)Damned: Meditations on Planetary Decolonisation
• 14 Mapping Euromodern Geographies: Plantations, Prisons, and Modernity
• 15 “Estamos Bien:” A Framework for Interrogating the Coloniality of Resilience for Postsecondary Education in Puerto Rico
• 16 The Black Diaspora and the International: Learning With the Difference
• 17 Geographies of Loss: Unveiling Mestizaje, Dispossession, Toxicity, and (Un)Settler Colonialism in Mexico
• 18 Hindu Nationalism and Indigeneity: Theoretical Challenges and Opportunities for the Decolonial School of Thought
• Part III Transdisciplinarity
• 19 Peace and (De)coloniality
• 20 Toward Decolonial Islamophobia Studies
• 21 Unlikely Sources of Decolonial Theorizing: My Jamaican Grandmother’s Stories of Resistance, Reclaiming, and Revitalization
• 22 Lamentations, Combat Breathing and Black Women’s Creative Practice as Episteme
• 23 ‘Antiracism, Decoloniality and Institutions: Between Rocks and Hard Places’
• 24 Spaces of Coloniality and Anthropological Practices in Southern Abya Yala Between the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
• 25 Embodying the Land: Diversity in Indigenous Health Knowledge Production From Palestine to the Great Plains
• 26 Towards a Transdisciplinary Decolonial Research Praxis: Insights From Using Decolonial Theory in Collaborative Research
• Part IV Feminisms, Genders, and Sexualities
• 27 An Inherently Decolonial Existence: Defining Palestinian Feminist Praxis
• 28 The World of the One: Colonizing to Exist and the Relevance of Indigenous Epistemologies of Coexistence
• 29 A Feminist Decolonial Positionality: Bodies, Resistance, Knowing1
• 30 Coloniality of Sexuality: Enacting Impositions
• 31 Holding Some Ground on a Greasy Dance Floor: Decoloniality, Caste and South Asian Queer Diaspora1
• 32 Arrested Possibilities, Islam Otherwise and Queer Life: Thinking Liberation, Religion and Decoloniality Alongside Shia Muslim Scholars
• Part V Racial Capitalism
• 33 Racial Capitalism as a Theory of History
• 34 Racial Capitalism: A Guide for the Naysayer
• 35 It has Been Racial Capitalism Since the Beginning
• 36 Towards a Decolonial Pan-Africanism of the Twenty-First Century: A Philosophy of Liberation Perspective
• 37 On Decoloniality And/In “Eastern Europe”
• 38 Racial Capitalism and Fascism
• 39 Entrepreneurship as Counterinsurgency in the Global South
• 40 Economic Orders After Sovereignty: Decolonization and Combative Decoloniality in Ghana
• 41 Decoloniality and Racial Capitalism
• 42 Climate Policy and Social Death: How Euro-American Green New Deals Reinforce the Disposability of African Life in the ‘Post’-colonial
• Index