Decolonial Pluriversalism

This book provides an in-depth reflection on decolonial pluriversalim as an alternative way of thinking, living, producing culture, arts, aesthetics, as well as experiencing and theorizing political activisms, religion, education and feminisms. It seeks to go beyond the postcolonial critique of eurocentrism and propose to explore how decolonial epistemologies are concretely translated in ways of thinking, theorizing as well as through cultural and political practices. This book presents pluralistic and diverse voices from different disciplines and intellectual traditions drawing on Latin American and Caribbean philosophies, concepts of creolization and racialization and explores Afropean aesthetics, arts and cultural productions, religion, feminisms, fashion, education and architecture.

Contributors: Zahra Ali, Luis Martínez Andrade, Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, Jane Anna Gordon, Mariam Guellouz, Léopold Lambert, Alanna Lockward, Fátima Hurtado López, Olivia Marboeuf, Donna Edmonds Mitchell, Corinna Mullin, Marine Bachelot Nguyen, Minh-Ha T. Pham, Françoise Vergès, Patrice Yengo

Zahra Ali is assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University-Newark. Her research exploresdynamics of women and gender, social and political movements in relation to Islam(s), the Middle East and contexts of war and conflict with a focus on contemporary Iraq. She is also interested in (post)coloniality, decolonial feminisms and epistemologies.

Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun is professor emerita of gender studies and political sociology at University Paris Diderot. She is the editor of the journal Tumultes and author of numerous books. Her work follows the tradition of Critical Theory and articulates aesthetic, politics, epistemology and gender studies, linked to the main concern of decolonizing the mind.