Decolonizing Knowledge

Interdisciplinary scholars rethink strategies for moving contemporary decolonization politics forward by revisiting the writings of the mid-20th century anti-colonial movements' leading intellectuals.

Radha D'Souza is Professor of Law, Development and Conflict Studies at the University of Westminster, UK. She is a lawyer, social justice activist, writer and commentator. Together with Dutch artist Jonas Staal she is co-founder of the art project Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes. Sunera Thobani is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her publications include Exalted Subjects (2007); Contesting Islam, Constructing Race and Sexuality (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020); and Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University (2022). She is founding member of Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equity (RACE, 2001).

Notes on Contributors Preface 1. Introduction (Radha D'Souza, University of Westminster, UK, and Sunera Thobani, University of British Columbia, Canada) 2. Decolonizing knowledge: Science, scientists and science education (Radha D'Souza, University of Westminster, UK) 3. Decolonization, feminist politics and 'the Muslim woman's question': Reading Fanon in the context of the Afghan and Gaza wars (Sunera Thobani, University of British Columbia, Canada) 4. On ethnographic refusal: Indigeneity, 'voice' and colonial citizenship (Audra Simpson, Columbia University, USA) 5. Fire: The decolonial pedagogy of subversion in Césaire and Djonga (Angelica de Freitas e Silva, Agência de Iniciativas Cidadãs/AIC, Brazil) 6. Class and struggle: Cabral, Rodney and the complexities of culture in Africa (David Austin, John Abbott College and the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, Canada) 7. The politics and place of Rajani Palme Dutt (Tanroop Sandhu, Queen Mary University of London, UK) 8. Labour super-exploitation, Black liberation and communist thought (Andrew Higginbottom, Kingston University, UK) 9. Before intersectionality: Difference, exploitation and emancipation in Ruy Mauro Marini, Walter Rodney and Andaiye (Amanda Latimer, Kingston University, UK) 10. From statehood to democratic confederalism: Decolonization and Abdullah Öcalan's solution to the Kurdish question (Behnam Amini, York University, Canada) 11. Reflecting on coloniality of power, colonial violence and decolonization through the University of Rojava (Jan Yasin Sunca, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Index