Decolonizing Bodies - A Radical Relational Approach to Racial Healing and Worlding Shared Humanity

Decolonizing Bodies explores processes of racialization through decolonial and radical relational lenses. It weaves together theory and the author s personal stories to examine how human bodies and whole nations are racialized by late capitalism s colonial legacies. It begins by introducing Radical Relational Individuality, a decolonial and relational perspective on embodied humans. It then discusses mixed-race myths in Mexico and Canada that reveal the persistence of systemic racism as global white ignorance and structural gaslighting. It engages with the trauma of racism embedded in human bodies, how institutions perpetuate white supremacy, and the need for racial healing for everybody. Decolonizing Bodies includes an interview with educator and leadership coach Tovi C. Scruggs on her transformational teachings and concludes by discussing decolonial cosmopolitan localism based on pluriversality, a shared world, shared humanity, and an expansive form of radical relational freedom that centers an ethic of love and our deep interconnections and dependencies on everybody and everything. This book will be of interest to scholars of sociology, race and racism, and decolonial approaches.

List of contents

1. Introduction: A Decolonial and Radical Relational Approach to Processes of Racialization.- 2. Reframing Human Individuality as Radically Relational.- 3. Racializing Nation(s).- 4. Racializing Bodies.- 5. Racial Healing is for Every-Body (with Tovi C. Scruggs).- 6. Conclusion: Worlding Shared Humanity in a Shared World.

Product details

• Authors: Mónica J Sánchez-Flores, Mónica J. Sánchez-Flores
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 13.03.2026
• EAN: 9783032097514
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3209751-4
• Illustrations: Approx. 305 p.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnische Gruppen und multikulturelle Studien, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Sociological Theory, Racism, Ethnography, auseinandersetzen, Decolonization, Social Structure, Cosmopolitanism, global capitalism, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten, relational theory, Autoethnography, Racial healing, Different ways of knowing, Decolonial approach, Racialization processes