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"Based on original material, this book offers a series of 12 conversational interviews with a diverse set of postcolonial thinkers from across the globe in the social sciences and humanities. Using a biographical approach to map out life histories, uniquely this book not only examines the key ideas of the thinkers interviewed, but it also invites readers to share their personal journeys to help one understand the experiences that led to their work within the field. The selection of thinkers included within this text is done so not with the aim to offer an encyclopedic index, but rather, to show how postcolonial thought as a broader concern can been found across a range of disciplines"--
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Introduction 1. Sara Ahmed 2. David Theo Goldberg 3. Catherine Hall 4. Boaventura de Sousa Santos 5. Vron Ware 6. Ash Amin 7. Avtar Brah 8. Howard Winant 9. Heidi Mirza 10. S. Sayyid 11. Ronit Lentin 12. Paul Gilroy Conclusion
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"This insightful and much needed book draws on the thoughts of a range of contemporary scholars of 'race', racism, ethnicity, and decolonial thought to shed light on the politics of the postcolonial in contemporary 'post-race' times. It meticulously draws out the lived interaction between thought and activism in the productions of these thinkers. Its range across 'race', ethnicity, gender, and location makes this text exceptional. This is a must read for serious contemporary post-colonial scholarship." - Shirley Anne Tate, Associate Professor in Race and Culture, The University of Leeds, UK and Visiting Professor, Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice, The University of The Free State, South Africa
"This is a rare, engagingly powerful, and indispensable text that refuses to circumvent the epistemologically messy and lived space of knowledge production. Through the venue and art of conversational engagement with a range of scholars - from areas as diverse as gender studies, sociology, literature, geography, and more - the reader is provided with a rich diversity and complex conceptualization of the meaning of postcolonial thought and agency. Resonating with a Jazz motif of open-ended inquiry, Sian's powerful text is improvisatory in spirit and movement. Conversations in Postcolonial Thought is a text that has resulted in a co-creative act, a rich dialogical space that ought to change fundamentally how we currently theorize and practice the meaning of postcolonial." - George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University, USA
"A creative collection of writings that carefully explores behind the curtains of the intellectual tradition of postcolonial thought. Deploying an insightful methodology, this book makes accessible to a broader public the thoughts of some of the contemporary moment's most outstanding thinkers. For students seeking greater understanding and depth, you must read Katy Sian. She reveals her own intellectual journey in order to cast light on the journeys taken by these scholars. In the process she wept, smiled, and spoke. It is all in there. Read it. You will not be disappointed." - Kwame Nimako, Visiting Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA
