Decolonial Entanglements Book Series

Decolonial Entanglements Book Series (All royalties will be donated to Gaza)

The Routledge Series Decolonial Entanglements: Praxis, Pedagogy and Social Theory is a publishing home for books that feature the work of scholars who, on the one hand, advance theory that unsettles disciplinary boundaries, and, on the other, take a praxis-oriented mode of examining education, curriculum, and pedagogy alongside sites of struggle. Edited by Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán, and Nathalia E. Jaramillo, this series stands at the intersection of pedagogy, social theory, and praxis, offering a bold platform for transformative ideas and critical debates.

Why This Series Matters:

1. Perspectives: This series dares to challenge entrenched norms and reimagine education and social structures through decolonial lenses. Each volume critically examines how colonial domination continues to shape our realities and offers pathways to radical change.

2. Voices: The series amplifies a multitude of voices from various cultural, social, and geographical locations that are often excluded from dominant academic spaces.

3. Impact: Designed for educators, scholars, and activists, these texts are not just for reading but for engagement. Each book provides actionable frameworks and methodologies that can be integrated into teaching and community practices, fostering resistance and resilience in the face of oppression.

4. Relevance: As we navigate increasingly complex sociopolitical landscapes, this series includes transdisciplinary contributions that advance genealogical, theoretical, methodological, and empirical studies that make explicit geopolitical, economic, social, and cultural intimacies across geographical boundaries.

5. Reach: With contributions from scholars worldwide, the series emphasizes interconnectedness and solidarity among marginalized communities, promoting a shared vision for decolonial futures.

This series advances the latest scholarship that builds upon decolonial thought and praxis with an acute transdisciplinary and pedagogical focus within and beyond formal educational institutions. Invited topics include—but are not limited to—decolonial thought in educational studies, curriculum theory, liberatory ethnic studies education, abolitionist thought, philosophy of education, and studies of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and social movement pedagogies.

Publishing both single/co-authored and edited volumes from established and early-career scholars alike, the series amplifies decolonial discourses and practices emerging from regions often left out of the conversation in dominant academic spaces. The editors seek to broaden the understanding of decolonial thought while pointing to entangled, heterogeneous, relational, and planetary interpretations of colonial structures and histories. Moreover, the series highlights the theories and praxes emerging from distinct yet historically connected regions and communities. It will include transdisciplinary contributions that advance genealogical, theoretical, methodological, and empirical studies that make explicit the geopolitical, economic, social, and cultural intimacies across geographical boundaries.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

○ Decolonial thought in curriculum theory and philosophy of education.

○ Entangled struggles from the “Americas” (Abya Yala and Turtle Island) to Palestine, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific.

○ Social theory, praxis, and education research

○ Abolition and (Counter)Insurgency

○ Analyses and critiques of racial capitalism and settler colonialism, as well as carcerality, genocide and scholasticide.

○ Social movement pedagogies or pedagogies of liberation

○ Decolonial Feminisms

○ Decolonial Queer Theory

○ Coloniality of education and curriculum reforms

○ South-South Dialogues and North-South Dialogues

○ Inter-epistemic dialogues between settler colonial and decolonial studies

○ Participatory Action Research

Additional Themes

Key Theories, Concepts, and Debates traces the intellectual genealogies of decolonial theories in different regions to understand the geopolitical and sociocultural exigencies that allow for radical discourses to emerge. Key debates advancing the analytical concept of (de)coloniality, the geopolitics of knowledge, pedagogies of liberation, matrix of power, coloniality of gender, heteropatriarchy, among others, make evident that decolonial theory must be understood in plural rather than monolithic terms.In addition, this them will feature scholarship that makes evident how colonial-patriarchal domination and capitalist exploitation are intimately related and are deeply entangled with research, regimes of knowledge, theories, pedagogies, and methodologies. In other words, symbolic domination is inseparable from material domination and exploitation, as well as anticolonial/decolonial and abolitionist resistance. Sociopolitical contexts or conjunctures create the conditions of possibility for theoretical discourses to be expressed within shifting geopolitical and economic landscapes. That is to say, geopolitical conjunctures enable praxis-oriented modes of theorizing particular contexts and social movements, including their political opportunities as well as structural constraints, as Stuart Hall brilliantly observed. This series will feature scholarship that makes evident how colonial-patriarchal domination and capitalist exploitation are intimately related and are deeply entangled with research, regimes of knowledge, theories, pedagogies, and methodologies. Books in this series advancing this theme will situate the advancement of decolonial concepts within their sociopolitical and historical contexts. 

Geopolitics of knowledge advances research informed by relational methodologies and decolonial theories which transcend methodological nationalism and unsettle the geopolitics of curriculum and coloniality of knowledge production. This book series theme is focused on research, including empirical studies, that examine the geopolitical intimacies of imperialism, colonialism, heteropatriarchy, and racial capitalism, namely the role education institutions play in perpetuating pedagogies of domination. To address the geopolitical intimacies of research and scholarship, books advancing this theme will make more explicit the connections between the materiality of colonial-racial-capitalist power and technologies of violence of knowledge-producing institutions across colonial and racial regimes.

Transdisciplinary Decolonial Theory seeks to avoid the tendency to conflate decolonial thought with anti-racist, critical race theory, and settler colonial studies since the category of race and colonialism are shared analytics, albeit using distinct frames of reference. The contributions to this book series theme address the hegemonic tendency of stripping decolonial thought of its transnational geographical scope and historical depth of decolonial theory and complement it with more nation-state-centered theories (e.g., Critical Race Theory and Settler Colonial Theory). Ethically committed to knowledge production born in struggles, monographs and edited volumes aligned to this theme will include research and scholarship that engage in inter-epistemic dialogues with the Global South’s advancements in decolonial theoretical-political movements. 

Feminisms, Sexualities and Genders includes the contributions of scholars interrogating heteropatriarchy as directly implicated in colonial domination. Ongoing debates on Decolonial Afro-Feminism, Decolonial Black Feminism, Decolonial Islamic Feminism, Queering Decolonial Studies, and many more, are too often left at the margins, even within decolonial studies. This book series theme addresses the frequently excluded theoretical and political advancements made by those on the receiving end of heteropatriarchal domination and exploitation. Black, African-feminist, Indigenous, and queer activist intellectuals and scholars contribute to decolonial thought and praxis by offering valuable conceptual tools to rethink decolonial projects. They challenge the masculine tendency in academic knowledge production to systematically silence and erase their epistemological and world-making practices. Books in this series will advance and intersect decolonial thought and praxis with feminist/queer theories and political projects from distinct contexts. Moreover, they demonstrate how transdisciplinary scholarship is advanced with and from multiple sites of struggles and subject positions.

Racial Capitalism addresses the theoretical and political points of convergence and divergence between decolonial theory, Marxism, and studies on racial capitalism. From dependency theory and world systems theory to the advancements made by Cedric Robinson on racial capitalism, it has become more evident that decolonial theory must also entangle the material conditions of colonial domination and capitalist exploitation with the symbolic-cultural-epistemological structures that education institutions constitute and actively uphold. Education institutions are central in reproducing systems of domination and exploitation. Rather than being solely concerned with epistemic issues, decolonial modes of theorizing the educational, curricular, and pedagogical must remain grounded in the reality of these interlocked systems of domination, as well as in the expressions of resistance and re-existence emerging from subaltern spaces.

Decolonial Horizons: Political Aesthetic Expressions delves into the intersection of decoloniality and multimodal creative and poetic expressions. Books contributing to this theme in the series will feature a diverse range of artistic works, encompassing literature, visual art, music, film, performance, and digital media. Political Aesthetic Expressions serve as vehicles for decolonial thinking and activism, providing alternative perspectives, counter-narratives, and imaginative possibilities. Books advancing this theme will underscore creative practices that disrupt hegemonic frameworks and representations, while amplifying alternative ways of knowing that refuse to separate the mind from the body. They will explore how different forms of expression, when combined and interconnected, can deepen our understanding of colonial histories, challenge dominant discourses, and create the conditions of possibility to build a world otherwise, that is, pave a way toward decolonial futures. Books will thus advance the affective, where emotions are not end in themselves but means to “move” the reader toward action.

Submission Guidelines:

We invite prospective authors to submit proposals for books between 60,000 and 100,000 words in length (including references and endnotes). We are open to single/co-authored and edited volumes. Proposal Form.

Email proposals to decolonialentanglements@gmail.com