Bibliography

A regularly updated bibliography on decolonial legal studies and decolonial theory


 

 

Decolonial Comparative Law

Bonilla Maldonado, Daniel. “El Giro Hacia El Sur En El Derecho Constitucional Comparado Ensavo Sobre El Libro Comparative Constitutional Law and the Global South.” Revista d Derecho Uninorteno. 57 (2022): 186-211. https://doi.org/10.14482/dere.57.298.141

Brayson, Kimberley. “Generating Comparison-in-Law: Embodied Epistemologies, For the Love of Knowledge” The Philosophies of Comparative Law 8, no. 2 (2021): 52-86. https://doi.org/10.33137/cal.v8i2.37854 

Campos Dutra, Deo, and Luiz Eduardo Camargo Outeiro Hernandes. “Direito Comparado Decolonial: Novas Posturas epistemológicas, Novas Metodologias E Os Desafios Para a realização Do Estudo jurídico Comparado a Partir Do Brasil: New Epistemological Stances, New Methodologies and the Challenges for Carrying Out Comparative Legal Studies from Brazil”. Revista Direito E Práxis, setembro de 2024, https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/revistaceaju/article/view/80496

De Moares, Wallace, and Juan Magalhães. “O método comparado: uma contribuição decolonial e libertária” Revista de Educação Interritórios 9, no. 18 (2023): 1-21. https://doi.org/10.51359/2525-7668.2023.258799 

Giulia, Parola, Loyuá Ribeiro Fernandes Moreira Da Costa, and Paola Margherita Poto. “Is a decolonial law possible? Epistemologies of the south and constitutional law” Revista Jurídica 2, no. 69 (2022): 655-674. 

Marín, Amaya Álvez, Tatsuhiko Inatani, and Marta Infantino. “Comparative law and epistemologies of ignorance in Chilean constitutional adjudication” In Decolonizing Law, edited by Sujith Xavier, Beverley Jacobs, Valerie Waboose, Jeffery G. Hewitt, and Amar Bhatia, 181-95. London: Routledge 2021. 

Mérieau, Eugénie. “Area Studies and the Decolonisation of Comparative Law: Insights from Alternative Southeast Asian Constitutional Modernities” International Quarterly for Asian Studies 51, no. 3-4 (2020), 153-170. https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2020.3-4.13668 

Merino, Roger. “Constitution-Making in the Andes – A Decolonial Approach to Comparative Constitutional Change” Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ) 86, no. 1 (2022): 226-53. https://doi.org/10.1628/rabelsz-2022-0009 

Michaels, Ralf. "Decolonial comparative law: FAQ" In A research agenda for Comparative Law, edited by Jaakko Husa, 61-87. Cheltenham: Elgar 2024.

Michaels, Ralf. “The Legal Legacy of the Colonial Era” MaxPlanckForschung 4 (2021): 16-21. https://www.mpg.de/18486977/W001_Viewpoint_016-021.pdf 

Nóbrega, Flavianne Fernanda Bitencourt and Camilla Montanha de Lima. “How the indigenous case of Xukuru before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights can inspire decolonial comparative studies on property rights” Brazilian Journal of International Law 18, no. 1 (2021): 353-373. https://doi.org/10.5102/rdi.v18i1.7313 

Salaymeh, Lena. “Decolonial Translation: Destabilizing Coloniality in Secular Translations of Islamic Law” Journal of Islamic Ethics 5 (2021): 250-277. 

Salaymeh, Lena, and Ralf Michaels. “Decolonial Comparative Law: A Conceptual Beginning” Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ) 86, no. 1 (2022): 166-88. https://doi.org/10.1628/rabelsz-2022-0007 

Vasconcelos, Raphael Carvalho de, and Deo Campus Dutra. “Comparative Law and Politics: Some Reflection Needed” Brazilian Journal of International Law 17, no. 1 (2020): 42-55. https://doi.org/10.5102/rdi.v17i1.6241 

Zitske, Emile. “Decolonial Comparative Law: Thoughts from South Africa”, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ) 86, no. 1 (2022): 189-225. https://doi.org/10.1628/rabelsz-2022-0008

 

Decolonial Theory

Amin, Samir. Delinking: Towards a Polycentric World. London: Zed Books, 1990.

Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large - Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Asher, Kiran. “Latin American decolonial thought, or making the subaltern speak” Geography Compass 7, no. 12 (2013): 832-842. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12102

Bhambra, Gurminder K. “Postcolonial and decolonial dialogues” Postcolonial Studies 17, no. 2 (2014): 115–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2014.966414

Boidin, Capucine. “Études décoloniales et postcoloniales dans les débats français” Cahier des Amériques latines 62 (2009): 129-140. https://doi.org/10.4000/cal.1620

Broeck, Sabine. „Dekoloniale Entbindung. Walter Mignolos Kritik an der Matrix der Kolonialität“ Schlüsselwerke Der Postcolonial Studies. Reuter, Julia, and Alexandra Karentzos (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2012: 165-175.

Broeck, Sabine, and Carsten Junker. Postcoloniality - Decoloniality - Black Critique: Joints and Fissures. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2014.

Cairo Carau, Heriberto, and Walter Mignolo. Las vertientes Americanas del pensamiento y proyecto des-colonias. Madrid: Trama, 2009.

Cheah, Pheng and Caroline S. Hau. Sitting Postcoloniality. Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere. Duke University Press, 2022. 

Dei, George J. Sefa, and Meredith Lordan. Anti-Colonial Theory and Decolonial Praxis. New York, Bern, Frankfurt, Berlin, Bruxelles, Vienna, Oxford, Warsaw: Peter Lang, 2016.

Duara, Prasenjit. Decolonization: Perspectives from Now and Then. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Escobar, Arturo. “Beyond the Third World: Imperial Globality, Global Coloniality, and Anti-Globalisation Social Movements” Third World Quarterly 25, no. 1 (2004): 207– 30. https://doi.org/10.1080/0143659042000185417

Escobar, Arturo. “Worlds and knowledges otherwise: The Latin American modernity/coloniality research program” Cultural Studies 21, no. 2-3 (2007): 179– 210. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380601162506

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 2004.

Ferdinand, Malcom. Une pensée décoloniale: penser l’écologie depuis le monde carribéen. Paris: Seuil, 2019.

Ferdinand, Malcom. A Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World. Cambridge UK: Polity Press, 2021.

Grosfoguel, Ramón. “Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality” TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 1, no. 1 (2011). https://doi.org/10.5070/T411000004

Grosfoguel, Ramón. “Del «extractivismo económico» al «extractivismo epistémico» y «extractivismo ontológico»: una forma destructiva de conocer, ser y estar en el mundo” Tábula Rasa 24 (2016): 123-143. https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.60

Grosfoguel, Ramón. “The Epistemic Decolonial Turn” Cultural Studies 21, no. 2–3 (2007): 211–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380601162514

Gordon, Lewis R. “Shifting the geography of reason in an age of disciplinary decadence” TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 1, no 2 (2011): 95–102. https://doi.org/10.5070/T412011810

Gu, Ming Dong. “What is ‘decoloniality’? A postcolonial critique” Postcolonial Studies 23, no. 4 (2020): 596-600. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2020.1751432

Harding, Sandra. “Latin American Decolonial Social Studies of Scientific Knowledge: Alliances and Tensions” Science, Technology, & Human Values 41, no. 6 (2016): 1063-1087. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243916656465

Jewish-Muslim Research Network. Islam, Judaism, and Decoloniality with Santiago Slabodsky and Sanober Umar. Youtube. 13 April 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i9YHoaYLVc

Kamugisha, Aaron. Beyond Coloniality, Citizenship and freedom in the Caribbean intellectual tradition. Johannesburg: University Press, 2019.

Kaviraj, Sudipta. "On Decolonizing Theory." Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 6, no. 1 (2021): 11-47. https://doi.org/10.5840/pga20222247

Kisukidi, Nadia Y. “Décoloniser la philosophie ou de la philosophie comme objet anthropologique” Présence africaine 2, no. 192 (2015): 83–98. https://doi.org/10.3917/presa.192.0083

Kumalo, Siseko H. and Leonhard Praeg, “Decoloniality and justice a priori” Journal of Decolonising Disciplines 1, no. 1 (2019). https://doi.org//10.35293/2664- 3405/2019/v1n1a1

Letsoalo Mankhuwe C., and Zenia Pero. Historically White Universities And The White Gaze: Crical Reflection On The Decolonisation of the LLB Curriculum. Pretoria Student Law Review, 2020.

Lordan, Meredith, and George J. Sefa Dei. Anti-Colonial Theory and Decolonial Praxis. New York: International Academic Publishers, 2016. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-1-4539-1857-9

Lugones, Maria. “The Coloniality of Gender” Duke University Press, Worlds & Knowledges Otherwise (2008): 1-17. https://globalstudies.trinity.duke.edu/projects/wko-gender

Maldonado-Torres, Nelson. Outline of Ten Theses on Coloniality and Decoloniality. Paris, Foundation Frantz Fanon, 2016. https://caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/docs/Maldonado-Torres_Outline_Ten_Theses-10.23.16.pd

Maldonado-Torres, Nelson. “Thinking through the Decolonial Turn: Post-Continental Interventions in Theory, Philosophy, and Critique—An Introduction.” TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 1, no. 2 (2011). https://doi.org/10.5070/T412011805

Madlingozi, Tshozi. Decolonising ‘decolonisation’ with Mphahlele. New Frame, Online (2018).

Mbembe, Achille. Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive. Public Lecture delivered at the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2015. https://wiser.wits.ac.za/system/files/Achille%20Mbembe%20- %20Decolonizing%20Knowledge%20and%20the%20Question%20of%20the%20Arc hive.pdf

Mbonda, Ernest-Marie. “La décolonisation des savoirs est-elle possible en philosophie?” Philosophiques 46, no. 2 (2019): 299–325. https://doi.org/10.7202/1066772ar

Mbonda, Ernest-Marie. Une décolonisation de la pensée: Études de philosophie afrocentrique. Paris: Sorbonne PUPS, 2021.

Mendoza, Breny. “Decolonial Theories in Comparison” Journal of World Philosophies 5 (2020): 43-60.

Mignolo, Walter D. “Coloniality of power and de-colonial thinking” Cultural Studies 21, no. 2-3 (2007): 155-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380601162498

Mignolo, Walter D. “Epistemic Disobedience and the Decolonial Option: A Manifesto.” TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 1, no. 2 (2011): 44–66. https://doi.org/10.5070/T412011807

Mignolo, Walter D. “The Conceptual Triad: Modernity/Coloniality/Decoloniality.” In On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis, Walter D. Mignolo, and Catherine E. Walsh (eds.). Durham: Duke University Press, 2018: 135-152. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11g9616.11

Mignolo, Walter D. Desobediencia Epistémica: Retórica de La Modernidad, Lógica de La Colonialidad y Gramática de La Descolonialidad. Buenos Aires, Argentina: del Signo, 2010.

Mignolo, Walter D., and Arturo Escobar. Globalization and the Decolonial Option. London, New York: Routledge, 2010. 

Mignolo, Walter D., and Catherine E. Walsh. On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, and Praxis. On Decoloniality. Durham, London: Duke University Press, 2018. https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-0-8223-7109-0_601.pdf

Mignolo, Walter. The Idea of Latin America. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. 

Mignolo, Walter. The Politics of Decolonial Investigations. Durham NC: University Press, 2021.

Moosavi, Leon. “The Decolonial Bandwagon and the Dangers of Intellectual Decolonisation” International Review of Sociology 30, no. 2 (2020): 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2020.1776919

Mukherjee, Sanjeeb. "Modernity and Democracy: Thinking beyond the Polis" Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 6, no. 1 (2021): 48-54. https://kairostext.in/index.php/kairostext/article/view/125/92

Nakata, Martin, Vicky Nakata, Sarah Keech, and Reuben Bolt. “Decolonial goals and pedagogies for Indigenous studies” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 120–14.

Ndlovu-Gatshenoi, Sabelo J. Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa, Myths of Decolonization. London: CODESRIA, 2013.

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo. “Global coloniality and the challenges of creating African futures” Strategic Review for Southern Africa 36, no. 2 (2014): 181-202. https://doi.org/10.35293/srsa.v36i2.189

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., and Morgan Ndlovu. Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century, Living Theories and True Ideas. London: Routledge, 2021.

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo. “Le long tournant décolonial dans les études africaines. Défis de la réécriture de l’Afrique” Politique africaine 161-162, no. 1-2 (2021): 449- 472. https://doi.org/10.3917/polaf.161.0449

Nigam, Aditya. "Response to Comments on Decolonizing Theory" Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 6, no. 1 (2021): 67-74. 

Oelofsen, Rianna. “Decolonisation of the African mind and intellectual landscape” Phronimon 16, no. 2 (2015): 130-146. https://doi.org/10.25159/2413-3086/3822

Oto, Alejandro de. Pensamiento Descolonial/Decolonial. Editorial Biblos Lexicón, 2009.

Palermo, Zulma. Arte y Estética En La Encrucijada Descolonial. Buenos Aires, Argentina: del Signo, 2009.

Palermo, Zulma. Desde La Otra Orilla: Pensamiento Crítico y Políticas Culturas En América Latina. Córdoba, Spain: Alción, 2005.

Palermo, Zulma. La Opción Decolonial. Editorial Biblos Lexicón, 2008.

Palermo, Zulma. Pensamiento Argentino y Opción Descolonial. Buenos Aires, Argentina: del Signo, 2010.

Quijano, Aníbal. “Des/Colonialidad Del Poder.” n.d. http://praxisdigital.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/descolonialidad-del-poder-el-horizonte-alternativoanibal- quijano/

Quintana, María Marta. Colonialidad Del Ser, Delimitaciones Conceptuales. Editorial Biblos Lexicón, 2008. http://www.cecies.org/articulo.asp?id=226.

Quintero, Pablo, and Ivanna Petz. “Refractando La Modernidad Desde La Colonialidad: Sobre La Reconfiguración de Un Locus Epistémico Desde La Geopolítica Del Conocimiento y La Diferencia Colonial.” Gazeta de Antropología 26, no. 2 (2009): 3-24. https://doi.org/10.30827/Digibug.6892

Quintero, Pablo. “Notas Sobre La Teoría de La Colonialidad Del Poder y La Estructuración de La Sociedad En América Latina.” Papeles de Trabajo 19 (2010): 26-43. https://doi.org/10.35305/revista.v0i19.122

Ramírez-Arenas, Carlos. "A Review of Anjan Chakrabarti et al. Marx, Marxism and the Spiritual" Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 6, no. 1 (2021): 75-78.

Rodney, Walter, Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution, Verso, 2022. Rodney, Walter. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. London: Verso Books, 2018.

Rojas Sotelo, Miguel. “Narcochingadazo Decolonial” n.d. https://sites.google.com/site/miguelrojassotelo/

Rutazibwa, Olivia Umurerwa. “What’s There to Mourn? Decolonial Reflections on (the End of) Liberal Humanitarianism” Journal of Humanitarian Affairs 1, no. 1 (2019): 65- 67. https://doi.org/10.7227/JHA.010

Scauso, Marcos S. Intersectional Decoloniality: Listening to the Other ‘Others’. E-International Relations, 4 June 2021. https://www.e-ir.info/2021/06/04/intersectional-decoloniality-listening-to-the- other-others/

Segato, Rita Laura. The Critique of Coloniality: Eight Essays. Translated by Ramsey McGlazer. Routledge, 2022. 

Serrano-Muñoz, Jordi, “Decolonial Theory in East Asia? Outlining a Shared Paradigm of Epistemologies of the South”, Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais (2021): 5-26. https://doi.org/10.4000/rccs.11430

Silva, Karine de Souza. “Beyond the Border between the North and the South: Towards a Decolonization of Epistemologies and Fields of Research on Mercosur” Brazilian Journal of International Law 14, no. 2 (2017): 413–428. http://dx.doi.org/10.5102/rdi.v14i2.4636

Silva, Karine de Souza and Amorim, Luísa Milioli de. “Migração Haitiana e Apatridia na República Dominicana: Intersecções entre Racismo e Colonialidade.” Revista da Faculdade de Direito UFPR 64, no. 2 (2019): 9–35. https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v64i2.62391

Silva, Karine de Souza, Silveira, Henrique Martins da, and Muller, Juliana. “Santa Catarina no Roteiro das Diásporas: os Novos Imigrantes Africanos em Florianópolis.” Revista Katálysis 21, no. 2 (2018): 281–292. https://doi.org/10.1590/1982- 02592018v21n2p281

Slabodsky, Santiago. Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Snyman, Gerrie. “Responding to the Decolonial Turn: Epistemic Vulnerability.” Missionalia 43, no. 3 (2015).

Spivak, Gayatri Chakratovrty. A critique of postcolonial reason: toward a history of the vanishing present. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 1999.

Taiwo, Olufemi. Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously. London: Hurst, 2022.

Thiong'o, Ngugi wa. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. London, Nairobi: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2011.

Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 1-40. https://clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.edu/files/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Dec olonization%20is%20not%20a%20metaphor.pdf

Vázquez, Rolando. “Translation as Erasure: Thoughts on Modernity’s Epistemic Violence’” Journal of Historical Sociology 24, no. 1 (2011): 27-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6443.2011.01387.x

Vergès, Françoise. Un Féminisme Décolonial. Paris: La fabrique éditions, 2019.

Vieira, Marco. “The decolonial subject and the problem of non-Western authenticity” Postcolonial Studies 22, no. 2 (2019): 150-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2019.1608795

Vijayashri, Priyadarshini. "Decolonizing Theory: Thinking Across Traditions" Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 6, no. 1 (2021): 60-66.

Vizcaíno, Rafael. "Secular Decolonial Woes" The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 35, no. 1 (2021): 71-92. https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.35.1.0071

Walsh, Catherine. “Decolonial Thinking and Doing in the Andes. A Conversation by Walter Mignolo with Catherine Walsh.” Reartikulacija, 2010, 10-13.

Walsh, Catherine. “Geopolíticas Del Conocimiento, Interculturalidad y Descolonización.” Boletin ICCI ARY-RIMAY. Publicación Mensual Del Instituto Científico de Culturas Indígenas 6, no. 60 (2004). http://icci.nativeweb.org/boletin/60/walsh.html

Walsh, Catherine. “Interculturalidad Crítica y Pedagogía De-Colonial: In-Surgir, Re-Existir y Re-Vivir.” Entrepalabras: Revista de Educación En El Lenguaje, La Literatura y La Oralidad, 2010, 3-4. https://redinterculturalidad.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/interculturalidad-crc3adtica-y-pedagogc3ada-decolonial-walsh.pdf

Walsh, Catherine. Interculturalidad, Estado, Sociedad: Luchas (de)Coloniales de Nuestra Época. Quito, Ecuador: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, 2009.

Walsh, Catherine, Freya Schiwy, and Santiago Castro-Gómez. Indisciplinar Las Ciencias Sociales: Geopolíticas Del Conocimiento y Colonialidad Del Poder. Perspectivas Desde Lo Andino. Quito, Ecuador: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, 2002.

Webb, Jack, Rod Westmaas, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, and William Tantam. Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond. London: University of London Press, Institute of Latin American Studies, 2020.

Zeiny, Esmaeil. The Rest Write Back: Discourse and Decolonization. Leiden: Brill, 2019. https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004398313/BP000001.xml

Zondi, Siphamandla. “A Decolonial Turn In Diplomatic Theory: Unmasking Epistemic Injustice” Journal for Contemporary History 41, no. 1 (2016): 18-37. https://doi.org/10.18820/24150509/jch.v41i1.2

 

Discipline-oriented decolonial theory

Agbakoba, Joseph A., and Marita Rainsborough, eds. Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy: Africanity, Afrotopia and Transcolonial PerspectivesRoutledge studies in African philosophy. Routledge, 2025. 

Bayly, Christopher Alan. “Indigenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development: The Case of Colonial India and Africa.” Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2008. 

Francis, Hilary, Inge Boudewijn, Antonia Carcelén-Estrada, Juana Francis Bone, Katy Jenkins, and Sofia Zaragocin. “Decolonising Oral History: A Conversation” History 106, no. 370 (2021): 265-281. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13141

Feukeu, Kwamou Eva, Bunmi Ajilore, and Robin Bourgeois. “The Capacity to Decolonise: building futures literacy in Africa” IDRC Research paper (2021). http://hdl.handle.net/10625/60080

Gutierrez, Encarnación Rodriguez, Manuela Boatcá, and Sergio Costa. Decolonizing European Sociology: Transdisciplinary Approaches. New York: Routledge, 2016.

Itchuaqiyaq, Cana Uluak, and Breanne Matheson. “Decolonizing Decoloniality: Considering the (Mis)use of Decolonial Frameworks in TPC Scholarship” Communication Design Quarterly Online 1 (2021). http://sigdoc.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/CDQ_20007_Itchuaqiyaq_Matheson.pdf

Kidd, Ian James. Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice. London, New York: Routledge, 2019.

Majozi, Nkululeko. “Theorising the Islamic State: A Decolonial Perspective” ReOrient 3, no. 2 (2018): 163-184.

Makon, Richard. Décoloniser La Pensée Africaine De L’Économie – Trajectoires épistémologiques, itinéraires théoriques et pratiques. Cameroun: L’Harmattan, 2021.

Maldonado-Torres, Nelson. Against War: Views from the Other Side of Modernity. Duke University Press, 2008.

Meghji, Ali. Decolonizing Sociology: A Guide to Theory and Practice. Cambridge UK: Polity, 2020.

Mentan, Tatah, Decolonizing Democracy from Western Cognitive Imperialism, Langaa RPCIG, 2011.

Sharma, Ananya. “Decolonizing International Relations: Confronting Erasures through Indigenous Knowledge Systems” International Studies 58, no. 2 (2021): 25- 40. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020881720981209

Tlostanova, Madina. What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire. Durham NC: University Press, 2018.

Vazquez, Rolando. “Precedence, Earth and the Anthropocene: Decolonizing Design” Design Philosophy Papers 15, no. 1 (2017): 77-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/14487136.2017.1303130

 

Decolonial feminism/masculinities

Arvin, Maile, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill. “Decolonizing feminism: Challenging connections between settler colonialism and heteropatriarchy” Feminist Formations 25, no. 1 (2013): 8-34. https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2013.0006

D’Arcangelis, Carol L. “Feminist Invocations of “the Decolonial”: Reading Resistance/Resurgence in María Lugones and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson” Peripherie - Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur 40, no. 1-2 (2020): 34-67.

Falquet, Jules, and Artemisa Flores Espinola. “Epistémologies décoloniales féministes” Cahiers du CEDREF 23, no. 1 (2019). https://doi.org/10.4000/cedref.1175

Lorde, Audre. “Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” Sister Outsider: Essays And Speeches 123, 1996.

Lugones, María. “Heterosexualism and the colonial/modern gender system” Hypatia 22, no. 1 (2007): 186-209.

Lugones, María. “Toward a Decolonial Feminism” Hypatia 25, no. 4 (2010): 742–59. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01137.x.

Mendez, Xhercis. “Notes toward a Decolonial Feminist Methodology: Revisiting the Race/Gender Matrix” Trans-Scripts 5 (2015): 41-59.

Mendoza, Breny. “Coloniality of Gender and Power: From Postcoloniality to Decoloniality” The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory, Disch, Lisa, and Mary Hawkesworth (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Mestiri, Soumaya. Décoloniser le Féminisme: Une Approche Transculturelle. Paris: Vrin, 2016.

Mohanty, Chandra T. Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham NC: Duke University, 2003.

Mucina, Devi Dee, Ubuntu Relational Love – Decolonizing Black Masculinities, University of Manitoba Press, 2019.

Oyewùmí, Oyèrónke ̣́ . The invention of women: Making an African sense of Western gender discourses. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Schechter, Patricia A. “Feminist Historiography, Anti-Imperialism, and the Decolonial.” Empire’s Twin: U.S. Antiimperialism from the Founding Era to the Age of Terrorism, Tyrrell, Ian, and Jay Sexton (eds.). Ithaka London: Cornell University Press, 2015, 153-66.

Segato, Rita L. “Patriarchy from margin to center: Discipline, territoriality, and cruelty in the apocalyptic phase of capital” The South Atlantic Quarterly 115, no. 3 (2016): 615-624.

Arya, Sunaina, and Aakash Singh Rathore. Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader. London: Routledge India, 2020.

Sunseri, Lina. “Moving beyond the feminism versus nationalism dichotomy: An anticolonial feminist perspective on Aboriginal liberation struggles” Canadian Women’s Studies/Les Cahiers De La Femme 20, no. 2 (2000): 143-148.

Tamale, Sylvia. Decolonization and Afro-Feminism. Daraja Press, 2020.

Tlostanova, Madina. Gender Epistemologies and Eurasian Borderlands. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

 

Knowledge Spaces

Barongo-Muweke, Norah. Decolonizing Education: Towards reconstructing a theory of citizenship. Basel: Springer, 2016. 

Bhambra, Gurminder K., Dalia Gebrial, and Kerem Nişancıoğlu. Decolonising the University. London: Pluto Press, 2018. https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/25936/1004145.pdf;jsessioni d=4EF3323D34E B9829B1086C43670E3914?sequence=1

Hira, Sandrew, “Decolonizing the Mind: The Case of the Netherlands” Decolonizing the University: Practicing Pluriversity, Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge X 1 (2012): 53-68.

Huguet, Montserrat Galcerán. “How Post-Colonial and Decolonial Theories Are Received in Europe and the Idea of Europe.” Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge. Araújo, Marta, and Silvia Rodríguez Maeso (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015, 93-113. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137292896_6

Hurtado Lopez, Fatima. "Pensee critique latino-americaine: de la philosophie de la liberation au tournant decolonial". Cahiers Des Ameriques Latines 62 (2009): 23-35. https://doi.org/10.4000/cal.1509.

Jansen, Jonathan D. (eds.) Decolonisation in Universities, The politics of knowledge. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2019.

Kapuya, Zvikomborero. Phenomenology of Decolonizing the University, Essays in the Contemporary Thoughts of Afrikology. Zimbabwe: Mwanaka Media and Publishing, 2020.

Lander, Edgardo. “La Colonialidad Del Saber. Eurocentrismo y Ciencias Sociales. Perspectivas Latinoamericanas.” Ciencias Sociales: Saberes Coloniales y Eurocéntricos, Edgardo Lander (ed.). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, 2000, 11-40. http://bibliotecavirtual.clacso.org.ar/ar/libros/lander/lander1.rtf

Modiri, Joel. “The Aporias of Decolonisation in the South African Academy” From Ivory Towers to Ebony Towers: Transforming Humanities Curricula in South Africa, Africa and African-American Studies, Tella, Oluwaseun, and Shireen Motala (eds.), Johannesburg, Jacana, 2020, 157-73.

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., and Siphamandla Zondi. Decolonizing the University: Knowledge Systems and Disciplines in Africa. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2016.

Nigam, Aditya. Decolonizing Theory: Thinking Across Traditions. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

Nzewi, Meki, and Odyke Nzewi. A Contemporary Study of Musical Arts Informed by African Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Cape Town: African Minds Publishers.

Posholi, Lerato. “Epistemic Decolonization as Overcoming the Hermeneutical Injustice of Eurocentrism.” Philosophical Papers 49, no. 2 (2020): 279-304. https://doi.org/10.1080/05568641.2020.1779604.

Pachón, Damián. “Nueva Perspectiva Filosófica En América Latina: El Grupo Modernidad/Colonialidad.” Revista de Ciencia Política 5 (2008): 8-35.

Paz García, Ana Pamela. “El Proyecto Des-Colonial En Enrique Dussel y Walter Mignolo: Hacia Una Epistemología Otra de Las Ciencias Sociales En América Latina.” Cultura y Representaciones Sociales 5, no. 10 (2011): 57-81.

Reiter, Bernd. Constructing the Pluriverse, The Geopolitics of Knowledge. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2018.

Rougier, Claude Bourguignon. Un dictionnaire décolonial: Perspectives depuis Abya Yala Afro Latino America. https://scienceetbiencommun.pressbooks.pub/colonialite/

Teaiwa, Katerina. “On decoloniality: a view from Oceania.” Postcolonial Studies (2020): 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2020.1751429.

Tlostanova, Madina, and Walter D. Mignolo. Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflections from Eurasia and the Americas. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012.

Zondi, Siphamandla. “The Post-Colonial is Neocolonial in the Indian Ocean Region: the Case of Chagos Seen Through the African-Centred Decolonial Theoretical Lens.” Africa Review (2020): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/09744053.2020.1754677

 

Humanity, Liberation, and Race 

Alatas, Syed Farid. Captive Mind. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosc006.pub2

Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands–La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1987.

Brandzel, Amy. Against Citizenship: The Violence of the Normative. University of Illinois Press, 2016.

Biko, Steve. I Write What I Like. Chicago: University Press, 2002.

Césaire Amin. Discourse on Colonialism. New York: Monthly Review Press (reissued 2000), 1950.

Dabashi, Hamid. Brown Skin, White Masks. Winnipeg: Fernwood, 2011.

Dabashi, Hamid. Can non-Europeans think. London: Zed Books, 2015.

Drexler-Dreis, Joseph, and Kristien Justaert. Beyond the Doctrine of Man: Decolonial Visions of the Human. Fordham: University Press, 2020.

Dussel, Enrique. Ethics of Liberation in the Age of Globalization and Exclusion. Durham NC: University Press, 2013.

Eboussi-Boulaga, Fabien. La Crise du Muntu: Autheticité africaine et philisophie, Presence Africa, 2020.

Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman. Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. New York: University Press, 2020.

Joseph-Gabriel, Annette K. Reimaging Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire. The new Black studies series. University of Illinois Press 2020. 

Lugones, María. Pilgrimage/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.

Memmi, Albert, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Portrait du colonisé: précédé du portrait du colonisateur; et d'une préf. de Jean-Paul Sartre. Suivi de Les Canadiens français sont-ils des colonisés?. Montréal: L'Etincelle, 1972.

Miano, Leonora. Afropea: Utopie post-occidentale et post-raciste. Paris: Grasset et Fasquelle, 2020.

Mignolo, Walter D. “Delinking.” Cultural Studies 21, no. 2-3 (2007): 449-514. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380601162647

Mignolo, Walter. Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Mitchell, Sherri. Decolonization: Digging deeper to get at the roots of systemic injustice and unsustainability, 14 July 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxVRvgrUTpI

Nandy, Ashis. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism. Oxford University Press, 1983.

Nascimento Abdias, O Quilombismo - Documentos de uma Militáncia Pan-Africanista, Editora Perspectiva LTDA, 2022. 

Natanel, Katherine, and Ilan Pappé. Palestine in a World on Fire. First. Haymarket Books, 2025.

Ndikung, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng, The Delusions of Care, Archive Books, 2020.

Ott, Michaela, and Babacar Mbaye Diop, Decolonial Aesthetics I – Tangled Humanism in the Afro- European Context, Berlin, Heidelberg: J. B. Metzler, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2023.

Sanjinés, Javier C. Mestizaje, Upside-Down: Aesthetic Politics in Modern Bolivia. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004.

Sarr, Felwine, Drew S. Burk, and Sarah Jones-Boardman, Afrotopia, Combined Academic Publ., 2020.

Sithole, Tendayi. Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness. New York: Lexington Books, 2017.

Steyn, Melissa and William Mpofu. Decolonising the Human, Reflections from Africa on Difference and Oppression. Johannesburg: Wits University, 2021.

Rexheipi, Piro. White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route. Duke University Press, 2022.

Wilkerson, Isabelle Y. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Random House, 2020.

Wynter, Sylvia. “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation – An Argument” CR: The New Centennial Review 3, no. 3 (2003): 257-337. https://doi.org/10.1353/ncr.2004.0015

Yountae, An, and Craig, Eleonor. Beyond Man: Race, Coloniality and Philosophy of Religion. Duke University Press, 2021.

 

Imagination

Castro, Eduardo Viveiros De, metafísicas canibais - Elementos para uma antropologia pós-estrutural Presses Universitaires de France, 2009. 

Glissant, Edouard. Poétique de la relation: Poétique III. Paris: Gallimard, 1990.

Kumar, Corinne, Asking, We Walk: the south as new political imaginary: book four, Streelekha Publications, 2013.

Mbembe, Achille. Postkolonie: zur politischen Vorstellungskraft im gegenwärtigen Afrika. Vienna: Turia+Kant, 2016.

Sarr, Felwine. Afrotopia. Paris: Philippe Rey, 2016.

Sealey, Kris. Creolizing the Nation. Northwestern University Press, 2020.

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