Decolonizing Bodies

Decolonizing Bodies offers novel theorizations of how racial capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchal violence erode the bodily schema and experiences of racialised and colonised populations, profoundly constraining their being in the world.

The book invigorates embodiment studies by centring the experiences and struggles of Black, Indigenous, colonised, disabled, queer, and racialised subjects, showing how they live these displacements and disintegrations.

The volume powerfully demonstrates how racism and colonialism sediment in bodily and habitual registers that are active, ongoing, made and remade. Bodies, the contributors argue, powerfully register the impacts of colonial and racialised violence, but through practices of embodiment, they also digest, expel, and transform them.

In centring non-normative subjective experiences and making space for different kinds of embodied knowledge, Decolonizing Bodies also takes a step toward decolonising academic knowledge.

This exciting and urgent book offers readers new ways of imagining, choreographing, and enacting the body. Beyond connecting distant geographies of harm, it celebrates polymorphous decolonial repertoires that record, creatively narrate, and heal.