1st Edition

Roads to Decolonisation An Introduction to Thought from the Global South

By Amy Duvenage Copyright 2024
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

Roads to Decolonisation: An Introduction to Thought from the Global South is an accessible new textbook that provides undergraduate students with a vital introduction to theory from the Global South and key issues of social justice, arming them with the tools to theorise and explain the social world away from dominant Global North perspectives. Arranged in four parts, it examines key... Read more

Introduction

Part 1. Race and Racism

1. Imperialism, Colonialism and the Racialised Other: W.E.B du Bois, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

2. Chapter 2 Race and Racism as Systems of Power: Lewis R. Gordon, Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kwame Anthony Appiah and Ambalavaner Sivanandan

3. Black Feminist Thought and Intersectionality: Sojourner Truth, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Patricia Hill Collins, Kimberlé Crenshaw

Part 2. Gender and Sexuality

4. Imperialism, Colonial Discourse and Women: Anne McClintock, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Uma Nayaran and Nira Yuval-Davies

5. The Politicisation and Sexualisation of Black Womanhood: Audre Lorde, Angela Y. Davis, bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins

6. African Feminist Thought: Ifi Amadiume, Obioma Nnaemeka, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu and Florence Stratton

7. Queer perspectives: Pumla Dineo Gqola, Marc Epprecht, Kopano Ratele and Sara Ahmed

Part 3. Identity and (Un)belonging in a Globalised World

8. (Under)Development, Modernity, and Epistemologies of the South: Walter Rodney, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Simon Gikandi and Achille Mbembe

9. Identity, Migration, Mobility and Diaspora: Homi Bhabha, Arjun Appadurai, Samir Amin and Avtar Brah

10. Citizenship, Nationalism and Xenophobia: A South African Case Study

Part 4. Decolonisation and Education

11. Decolonial Feminisms: Françoise Vergès, Awino Okech, Sara Ahmed, Heidi Safia Mirza, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Sylvia Tamale

12. Criminological and Social Theory and Methods, Settler Colonialism and the Indigenous Context: Biko Agozino, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Thalia Anthony and Harry Blagg, Chris Cunneen and Simone Rowe, and Raewyn Connell

13. Pedagogies of the South and Ubuntu as a Feminist Decolonial Pedagogy: Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Sylvia Tamale, Leonhard Praeg, Ezra Chitando and Siphokazi Magadla, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Nomalungelo I. Ngubane and Manyane Makua

Biography

Amy Duvenage is a lecturer in criminology at Solent University, Southampton. Her teaching and research is interdisciplinary, intersecting across several disciplines including criminology, gender studies, literature, and sociology. She has a particular interest in gender theory, decoloniality, intersectionality and thought from the Global South.