The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory

Jairo I. Funez-Flores is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies at Texas Tech University. He is the Program Chair of the Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education SIG for the American Educational Research Association. His research is situated at the intersection of sociocultural studies in curriculum theory, decolonial theory, critical ethnography, and social movement research. Currently, he is advancing what he calls insurgent decolonial theory to situate thought in sites of struggle. He has published articles in Theory, Culture & Society, Globalisation, Societies and Education, Sociology Compass, and Educational Studies. He is also the co-editor of the Bristol University Press book series Decolonization and Social Worlds, lead editor of the Routledge book series Decolonial Entanglements: Praxis, Pedagogy, and Social Theory, and lead editor of the SAGE Handbook of Decolonial Theory. Ana Carolina Diaz Beltran is an Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Her research focuses on the living experiences of citizenship and belonging of transnational Latine youth, intergenerational schooling experiences of Black families in the US, and decolonial thought and praxis. She has published articles in Curriculum Inquiry, Theory & Research in Social Education, and Educational Studies. She currently serves as chair for the Decolonial, Postcolonial and Anti-colonial Studies in Education SIG at the American Educational Research Association. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is currently Research Professor and Director of Scholarship at the Department of Leadership and Transformation (DLT) in the Principal and Vice-Chancellor's Office at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Professor Ndlovu-Gatsheni has published over a hundred publications and his major book publications include Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity (New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, June 2013); Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa: Myths of Decolonization (Dakar: CODESRIA, 2013); Decolonizing the University, Knowledge Systems and Disciplines (North Carolina, Carolina Academic Press, April 2016) co-edited with Siphamandla Zondi; The Decolonial Mandela: Peace, Justice and Politics of Life (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, March 2016); and Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization (London & New York: Routledge, July 2018). His latest publication is Decolonization, Development and Knowledge in Africa: Turning Over A New Leaf (Routledge, May 2020). Sandeep Bakshi researches transnational queer and decolonial enunciation of knowledges. He received his PhD from the School of English, University of Leicester, UK, and is currently employed as an Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Queer Literatures and Literary Translation at the University of Paris. He coordinates two research seminars, "Peripheral Knowledges" and "Empires, Souths, Sexualities," and heads the "Gender and Sexuality Studies" research group. Co-editor of Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions (Oxford: Counterpress, 2016) and Decolonial Trajectories, special issue of Interventions (2020), he has published on queer and race problematics in postcolonial literatures and cultures. He is the founder and serves on the board of the Decolonizing Sexualities Network (https://decolonizingsexualities.org). Agustin Lao-Montes has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York-Binghamton. He is a Professor of Sociology & Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst. His fields of specialty include world-historical sociology and globalization, political sociology (especially social movements and the sociology of state and nationalism), social identities and social inequalities, sociology of race and ethnicity, urban sociology/community-university partnerships, African Diaspora and Latino Studies, sociology of culture and cultural studies, and contemporary theory and postcolonial critique. He has published numerous articles on decolonial theory and is the author of Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York and Contrapunteos diasporicos: Cartografias politicas de Nuestra Afroamerica. Flavia Rios is a Professor of Sociology at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil. She was a Visiting Student Researcher Collaborator (VSRC) in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University (2013). Her main interests are Social Movements, racial inequalities, Affirmative Actions, and Black thought. Flavia's current research focuses on intersections between gender, race, and democracy. She is the author of numerous articles building upon Black decolonial feminisms and struggles in Brazil.

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 Approaches 7 A Never-Ending Historicity: The Antifuturist Discourses of Abya Yala and their Confrontation with the Finite Time of Western Modernity 8 Decoloniality is Agency 9 Insurgent Decoloniality: Situating Thought in Sites of Struggle 10 The Rise and Fall of Decolonial Social Theory: Co-Optation, Intellectualisation, and the Epistemic Decolonial 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-Toward Afromodern Decolonial Politics 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: Dispossession, Tourism, Mestizaje, 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 Towards 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 Anti-racism, 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 Century 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, & 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 Co-existence 29 A Feminist Decolonial Positionality: Bodies, Resistance, Knowing 30 Coloniality of Sexuality: Enacting Impositions 31 Holding Some Ground on a Greasy Dancefloor: Decoloniality, Caste, and South Asian Queer Diaspora 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