Series: Decolonization and Social Worlds

This volume brings together key scholars from across the globe to explore anti-colonial and anti-imperial perspectives to help transform our ways of looking at the world. Collectively, these chapters introduce new frameworks and methodologies that challenge the dominance of Western paradigms, while highlighting the multiplicity of issues and themes emerging from colonised countries, past and present. By rethinking the foundational...

In the face of enduring global inequalities and colonial legacies, social scientists in the Anglo-Caribbean navigate complex challenges in their research and career-making. Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean reveals how academics in the Global South negotiate these asymmetries in their daily work. Through fieldwork and interviews with senior scholars, the author explores how Anglo-Caribbean social scientists creatively...

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America examines forced sterilisation through various registers, from the ways women speak about reproductive abuse to urban feminist activism and bureaucratic responses. The author argues that a hierarchy of discourse shapes the dominant understanding of reproductive abuse, rooted in repronormativity. This focus often overlooks other harms, such as loss...

What does it really mean to decolonize migration studies? Often the term is used as a slogan, without asking whether it genuinely changes research or simply replaces one dominant framework with another. Can Migration Studies be Decolonized? explores when decolonial approaches create new openings and when they risk shutting down debate. Drawing on vivid case studies from partnerships between North...

As racial boundaries are constantly negotiated in Europe and across the globe, this book explores how Russian migrant workers navigate racial capitalism in the Nordic region. Challenging the idea of a 'race-neutral' Eastern Europe, Race and Labour among Russian Migrants reveals how Russian migrants actively claim whiteness, often finding themselves on the margins of acceptability. Uniquely combining postsocialist and postcolonial...