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... civilization, modern European philosophy, and the modern European sciences. It also calls for and provides key elements for understanding decoloniality as a transmodern project and as a turn in theory, philosophy, and critique. This includes the production of decolonial knowledge formations, such as what were...

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... on Colonialism serves as a critique of major tenets of modern Western civilization, modern European philosophy, and the modern European sciences. It also calls for and provides key elements for understanding decoloniality as a transmodern project and as a turn in theory, philosophy, and critique. This includes...

...? Eschewing the conventional segregation of spatialities (Latin American studies versus South Asian studies) that often undergirds the force of the decolonial turn, this chapter engages the emergence of the Samaj in the fraught contexts of colonial Portuguese India. In so doing, the chapter poses one central...

... This essay argues that the “archipelagic” turn in American studies is a productive way to more fully engage Guam and the emergent field of Guam studies. It embodies an archipelagic structure by viewing Guam as a complex space contested by various populations and interests vying...

... This chapter takes up recent theories of “Life” as revolutionary excess, probing the origins of the vitalist turn to a Foucauldian “savage ontology.” According to Noys, both academic theorists and anarchist practitioners of vitalism share a common genesis in their rejection of the Hegelian...

... of the disappeared and turn them into decolonial gestures of healing. They create object-based works to expose the hidden underside of modernity, revealing Maya views and experiences of history, time, and space that precede art historical labels. Some artists bring light to the hidden function of coloniality...

... of a feminist aesthetics from decades earlier with a feminist visual disobedience centered on embodied agency that is both antipatriarchal and anti-colonial. cuir artists coloniality of gender decolonial feminism femicide performance art ...

... jus publicum Europeaum This chapter takes up recent theories of “Life” as revolutionary excess, probing the origins of the vitalist turn to a Foucauldian “savage ontology.” According to Noys, both academic theorists and anarchist practitioners of vitalism share a common genesis...

... the pragmatic turn to a more proportional scale of life and the rejection of the centralized Leninist-Statist approaches that have characterized both the left and the right over the past century. At the heart of these autonomist movements is “the creativity of real men and women, of ordinary people, who...

... does not simply dismiss or turn away from religion in search of a secular, decolonial future. Instead, Fanon’s phenomenology of the political hints at the significant place of religion in Fanon’s critique of colonial modernity. This critique is read as a critique of the political theology...

... Combating the informatics of domination demands other ways to tell stories and imagine worlds. “A Cyborg Manifesto” calls up such possibilities in its invocation of Octavia E. Butler. This essay turns to N. K. Jemison’s Broken Earth Trilogy to explore how Black, queer, and decolonial...

... Sani Abacha, soldiers no longer spoke of military rule as a “revolution”—it was an opportunity to loot the state, which they did brazenly. The Abacha regime abandoned law as an administrative contrivance, turning instead to raw force. Not all acts of decolonization were acts of liberation. There were...

... not simply dismiss or turn away from religion in search of a secular, decolonial future. Instead, Fanon’s phenomenology of the political hints at the significant place of religion in Fanon’s critique of colonial modernity. This critique is read as a critique of the political theology of coloniality...

... This chapter marks a turn toward the Latin American context, in part through Fanon’s own influence in the region, and the parallel decolonial influence of the Peruvian socialist José Carlos Mariátegui, who shares a similarly global view. The chapter then takes up the more recent work of Enrique...

... and stories by Bobby Holcomb, André Marere, Cronos, THS!, Alexandre Moeava Ata, and Albert Wendt, this chapter explores how antinuclear artists and writers from Tahiti and Samoa have addressed this plague. These artists stand out for their choice to talk about death and diseases by turning to humor, parody...

... and a time of their own. First, I turn to khwājasarāʾ and hijṛā historical subjectivities to account for the distemporalizing effects as well as some potentially productive tensions between present-day khwajasara and hijra views of the(ir) past and those of the(ir) historians. Second, I briefly...

... and a time of their own. First, I turn to khwājasarāʾ and hijṛā historical subjectivities to account for the distemporalizing effects as well as some potentially productive tensions between present-day khwajasara and hijra views of the(ir) past and those of the(ir) historians. Second, I briefly...