1st Edition
Decolonisation in the 21st Century Rethinking Coloniality, Resistance and Solidarity
PART I Prelude
1 Transit Asia and the geopolitics of decolonisation: Towards a new radical solidarity
Joyce C.H. Liu and Brett Neilson
2 Against decolonisation? Drifting tributaries of colonialism’s legacies
Manuela Bojadžijev, Brett Neilson, and Ned Rossiter
PART II We are still in the time of coloniality: Re-thinking capitalism, war, and structural minoritisation
3 All-under-heaven, networked underground: The limits of Tianxia 2.0
Joyce C.H. Liu
4 Gaza, Palestine: Decolonial imaginaries for a dead-end present
Ruba Salih
5 Policy ghosts and decolonisation: Lessons from Australia
Tess Lea
6 Colonising the sea: Land reclamations, imperialism, and the Anthropocene in East Asia
Denis Byrne
7 ‘Affording’ racialised labour subjectivity: The case of migrant/minority worker-YouTubers in (neo-)post-colonial Hong Kong
Lisa Y.M. Leung
PART III Projects of Decolonisation: Artistic interventions and solidarity from the margins
8 Nonuments: A participatory theatre as alternative historical writing and artistic intervention
Wen-Shu Lai
9 Following the stars: Aquapelagic listening
Karin G. Oen and James Jack
10 Decolonisation and the voices of the ancestors: Organising and creative work in the United States and Taiwan
Valerie Soe
11 Chinese female workers’ cultural production and vlogs against techno-colonisation
Peier Chen and Ngai Pun
PART IV Coda: Towards practical ethics and alternative internationalism
12 Solidarity and the practical ethics of care and protection
Ranabir Samaddar
13 Reframing internationalism: For a politics of freedom and equality in an age of war and transition
Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson
Biography
Joyce C.H. Liu is Professor of Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, and Political Philosophy and Director of the International Center for Cultural Studies at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Her research spans comparative literature, psychoanalysis, visual culture, and Chinese political thought, with recent work on geopolitics, biopolitics, border politics, internal colonialism, unequal citizenship, decolonisation of knowledge, and art activism. After earning her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1984, she taught in Taiwan for over four decades, founding key institutes in comparative literature and cultural studies. Author of seven books and over 100 articles, Liu’s landmark works trace the topology of mentalities across the Taiwan-China complex. She also leads major transnational projects on migration, justice, and decolonial knowledge.
Brett Neilson is Professor and Deputy Director in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. He is the author (with Sandro Mezzadra) of The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World (2024); The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism (2019); and Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labour (2013). Together with Ned Rossiter, Manuela Bojadžijev, and others, he is currently working on an Australian Research Council research project on transborder electricity infrastructures.
