Transdisciplinary Souths

How might we theorize, think, articulate and critically/creatively inhabit the multiple and overlapping Souths of today’s world? How do we enable these Souths to speak to each other, question each other, in ways that complement and expand the work upon which they are already embarked with each other? It is becoming increasingly clear that in order to better understand and contribute to the multiple processes and ways of becoming-Souths, a radically transdisciplinary approach to the study and analysis of, critical interventions in, and dialogues within and between Souths needs to be implemented. Intersectional thinking at the crossroads of race and ethnicity, class and labour, gender and corporeality, not to mention climate change and ecological destruction, demands a combination of perspectives and methodologies to deal adequately with complex planetary dilemmas. This series offers a hospitable forum for innovative intellectual inquiry that seeks to break out of extant disciplinary frameworks so as to address new questions emerging from contemporary Souths. Facilitating cross-border exchanges and polyglot negotiations between the most disparate fields of intellectual and scientific inquiry, thereby resisting the disciplining effect of enclave-thinking, the series aims to contribute to the transformation of knowledge production and associated practices across multiple Souths.

Series editors:

Russell West-Pavlov (Universität Tübingen, Germany)

Molly Brown (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

Guadalupe Valencia García (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico)

Philip Mead (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Dilip Menon (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)

Sudesh Mishra (University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji)

Sunita Reddy (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)

Fernando Resende (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói/Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Jing Zhao (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China)