Decolonial Pluriversalism - Hardcover

by Zahra Ali (Editor), Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun (Editor)

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

Author Biography

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.