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Roads to Decolonisation: An Introduction to Thought from the Global South is an accessible textbook that provides undergraduate students with a vital introduction to theory from the Global South and key issues of social justice.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
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Roads to Decolonisation: An Introduction to Thought from the Global South is an accessible textbook that provides undergraduate students with a vital introduction to theory from the Global South and key issues of social justice.
