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The observation that we cannot fully uproot the epistemological-material violence of coercive systems, nor fully (re)imagine more ethical visions of planetary community, without shared attention to the deeper histories of place and peoples that shape the present.
List of contents
PrefaceIntroductionLaura Doyle, Simon Gikandi, Mwangi wa G¿th¿nji
1.
Narrating Chimakonde: Long¿Term History, Local Metaphors, and Layered Identities Yaari Felber-Seligman
2.
Autoarchaeology at Richter's Gård (Richter's House): Decolonizing Knowledge, Pedagogy and PraxisRachel Ama Asaa Engmann
3.
Sedimenting Diasporic Identities: Reconstellating Decorative Objects in Deep Time and PlaceDonette Francis
4.
The Trans/national Terrain of Anishinaabe Law and DiplomacyJoseph Bauerkemper and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark
5.
The Peasant is the Lord of the Nation: Peasant Cultivators and the Birth of Property Rights in the Ottoman EmpireMalissa Taylor
6.
Ujanja, Fraud and Kenyan Moral CommonsGrace A Musila
7.
Africa in the Longue Durée: Rethinking categories of Economy and IdentityMwangi wa G¿th¿nji
8.
Children of the Poppy: Political Economies of Healing in South Asia and BeyondJohan Mathew
9.
Identity-Entitlements and the Mode of Pillage: Towards a Non-Eurocentric Approach to the Political Economy of Peripheral CapitalismShahram Azhar
10.
Terra Non Firma: Indigeneity, Caste, and the Hindu Nationalist Ecological (Re)ImaginaryPinky Hota and Banu Subramaniam
Afterword11.
'Worlds of Difference' /Different World(s) - Reading Decolonial Reconstellations Within and Beyond the PluriverseScarlett Cornelissen
About the author
Laura Doyle is Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Founding Co-Director of the World Studies Interdisciplinary Project with Mwangi wa G¿th¿nji. Book publications include
Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labors, and the Literary Arts of Alliance (Wallerstein Prize);
Bordering on the Body (Leeson Prize);
Freedom's Empire; and two edited collections
Bodies of Resistance: New Phenomenologies of Politics, Agency, and Culture and
Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity. Doyle has received a Leverhulme Research Professorship (UK), a Rockefeller Fellowship in Intercultural Scholarship in Afro-American Studies (Princeton University), and two ACLS Fellowships.
Simon Gikandi is Class of 1943 University Professor of English at Princeton University and Chair of the English Department. His most recent book,
Slavery and the Culture of Taste, was awarded both the MLA James Russell Lowell Award and the Melville J. Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association. In addition to numerous articles, his several books include
The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 (Volume 11 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English). Gikandi has served as President of the Modern Language Association and as editor of
PMLA, its official journal.
Mwangi wa G¿th¿nji is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and founding Co-Director of the World Studies Interdisciplinary Project with Laura Doyle. His publications include
Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars: A Study of Inequality and Development in Kenya the co-authored
An Employment Targeted Plan for Kenya, and numerous articles. He has served in multiple editorial roles and consulted with agencies and NGOs, including the UNDP, Economic Commission for Africa, Africa Center for Economic Transformation, and the Society for International Development.
