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This book provides an in-depth reflection on decolonial pluriversalim as an alternative way of thinking, living, producing culture, arts, aesthetics, as well as experiencing and theorizing political activisms, religion, education and feminisms. It seeks to go beyond the postcolonial critique of eurocentrism and propose to explore how decolonial epistemologies are concretely translated in ways of thinking, theorizing as well as through cultural and political practices. This book presents pluralistic and diverse voices from different disciplines and intellectual traditions drawing on Latin American and Caribbean philosophies, concepts of creolization and racialization and explores Afropean aesthetics, arts and cultural productions, religion, feminisms, fashion, education and architecture.

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Decolonial Pluriversalism is an exhilarating and powerfully poetic entr�e for those of us in the Anglophone world, throwing us into the creative ways of existing, speaking, writing, and making knowledge that decolonial thought and practice from the creolizing Francophone world offers us as we all confront the violences of modernity. --Lila Abu-Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University

Decolonial Pluriversalism is an exhilarating and powerfully poetic entr�e for those of us in the Anglophone world, throwing us into the creative ways of existing, speaking, writing, and making knowledge that decolonial thought and practice from the creolizing Francophone world offers us as we all confront the violences of modernity. --Lila Abu-Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University Decolonial Pluversalism is written in a context in which Europe as the center of the world is finally provincialized. Opening the way, and carrying new epistemologies and alternative visions of knowledges situated in the wretched of the earth, these Legba of postcolonial/decolonial theories accompany all the possibilities of a pluriversal being drawn in front of our eyes. --Jean Waddimir Gustinvil, professor of philosophy, State University of Ha�ti Decolonial Pluriversalism is an exhilarating and powerfully poetic entr�e for those of us in the Anglophone world, throwing us into the creative ways of existing, speaking, writing, and making knowledge that decolonial thought and practice from the creolizing Francophone world offers us as we all confront the violences of modernity. Decolonial Pluversalism is written in a context in which Europe as the center of the world is finally provincialized. Opening the way, and carrying new epistemologies and alternative visions of knowledges situated in the wretched of the earth, these Legba of postcolonial/decolonial theories accompany all the possibilities of a pluriversal being drawn in front of our eyes.

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Zahra Ali is assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University-Newark. Her research exploresdynamics of women and gender, social and political movements in relation to Islam(s), the Middle East and contexts of war and conflict with a focus on contemporary Iraq. She is also interested in (post)coloniality, decolonial feminisms and epistemologies. Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun is professor emerita of gender studies and political sociology at University Paris Diderot. She is the editor of the journal Tumultes and author of numerous books. Her work follows the tradition of Critical Theory and articulates aesthetic, politics, epistemology and gender studies, linked to the main concern of decolonizing the mind.

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