The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory

Edited by:

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores - Texas Tech University, USA
Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán - University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni - University of South Africa
Sandeep Bakshi - Université Paris Cité
Augustin Lao-Montes - University of Massachusets, Amherst, USA
Flavia Rios - Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

Other Titles in:
Cultural Theory | Social Theory | Sociology of Race & Ethnicity

July 2025 | 720 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory is a pioneering resource that expands the epistemological and geographical horizons of decolonial thought. This handbook prioritizes the Global South, fostering North-South and South-South inter-epistemic dialogues and situating decolonial thought in sites of struggle. It builds on a foundation of Black, Indigenous, and campesino decolonial thought and praxis from regions such as Chile, Colombia, Brazil, and Guatemala.

Addressing the erasure of knowledge production from the Global South in dominant academic spaces, this handbook brings together decolonial scholars and activist intellectuals from the Global South and engages with scholars in the Global North. It emphasizes the ethics of knowledge production and the importance of collaborative projects with marginalized regions and communities.

Organized into five parts, the handbook includes conceptual essays and empirical studies on decolonial thought and praxis. It covers a range of topics from (de)coloniality, geopolitics, and transdisciplinarity to decolonial feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, racial capitalism, and Pan-Africanism. The chapters convey a sense of urgency and a committed political voice, demonstrating how decolonial theory can interrogate and intervene in the modern/colonial racial capitalist heteropatriarchal world.

The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory is not just for academics; it is written for anyone interested in radical thought and praxis. It recognizes decolonial theory as a plural and dynamic field, concerned with power relations, historiographical interventions, and epistemological critiques of Eurocentrism. Ultimately, it teaches us how to think with and act alongside others in the struggle for liberation.

Part I: Key Debates in Decolonial Theory
Part II: Geopolitics and Geographies
Part III: Transdisciplinarity
Part IV: Feminisms, Genders, & Sexualities
Part V: Racial Capitalism

PART I: KEY DEBATES IN DECOLONIAL THEORY

1 The Coloniality of Power and Social Classification

2 Decolonial Praxis and Decolonizing Paths: Notes for These Times

3 Palestine, the War against Decolonization, and Combative Decoloniality

4 Encruzilhada: The Concept of Crossroads in the Afro-Diasporic Cosmovision as a Decolonizing Theoretical Practice

5 The Struggle for the Decolonial Liberation of Palestine

6 Occupations of Language: Queer Praxis Grounding Decolonial Approaches

7 A Never-Ending Historicity: The Antifuturist Discourses of Abya Yala and their Confrontation with the Finite Time of Western Modernity

8 Decoloniality is Agency

9 Insurgent Decoloniality: Situating Thought in Sites of Struggle

10 The Rise and Fall of Decolonial Social Theory: Co-Optation, Intellectualisation, and the Epistemic Decolonial Turn

PART II: GEOPOLITICS AND GEOGRAPHIES

11 Demystifying Decolonization: Reclaiming Palestinian Authorship of their Destiny

12 We Can’t theorize Without an Image of the World: Toward a Heterogeneous, Relational, and Planetary Imagination

13 The Earth of the (Un)Damned: Meditations on Planetary Decolonisation

14 Mapping Euromodern Geographies: Plantations, Prisons and Modernity—Toward Afromodern Decolonial Politics

15 “Estamos Bien:” A Framework for Interrogating the Coloniality of Resilience for Postsecondary Education in Puerto Rico

16 The Black Diaspora and the International: Learning with the Difference

17 Geographies of Loss: Dispossession, Tourism, Mestizaje, and (Un) Settler Colonialism in Mexico

18 Hindu Nationalism and Indigeneity: Theoretical Challenges and Opportunities for the Decolonial School of Thought

PART III: TRANSDISCIPLINARITY

19 Peace and (de)coloniality

20 Towards Decolonial Islamophobia Studies

21 Unlikely Sources of Decolonial Theorizing: My Jamaican Grandmother’s Stories of Resistance, Reclaiming, and Revitalization

22 Lamentations, Combat Breathing and Black Women's Creative Practice as Episteme

23 Anti-racism, Decoloniality and Institutions: Between Rocks and Hard Places…

24 Spaces of Coloniality and Anthropological Practices in Southern Abya Yala Between the Late 19th and Early 20th Century

25 Embodying the Land: Diversity in Indigenous Health Knowledge Production from Palestine to the Great Plains

26 Towards a Transdisciplinary Decolonial Research Praxis: Insights from Using Decolonial Theory in Collaborative Research

PART IV: FEMINISMS, GENDERS, & SEXUALITIES

27 An Inherently Decolonial Existence: Defining Palestinian Feminist Praxis

28 The World of the One: Colonizing to Exist and the Relevance of Indigenous Epistemologies of Co-existence

29 A Feminist Decolonial Positionality: Bodies, Resistance, Knowing

30 Coloniality of Sexuality: Enacting Impositions

31 Holding Some Ground on a Greasy Dancefloor: Decoloniality, Caste, and South Asian Queer Diaspora

32 Arrested Possibilities, Islam Otherwise, and Queer Life: Thinking Liberation, Religion, and Decoloniality alongside Shia Muslim Scholars

PART V: RACIAL CAPITALISM

33 Racial Capitalism as a Theory of History

34 Racial Capitalism: A Guide for the Naysayer

35 It Has Been Racial Capitalism Since the Beginning

36 Towards a Decolonial Pan-Africanism of the Twenty-First Century: A Philosophy of Liberation Perspective

37 On Decoloniality and/in “Eastern Europe”

38 Racial Capitalism and Fascism

39 Entrepreneurship as Counterinsurgency in the Global South

40 Economic Orders after Sovereignty: Decolonization and Combative Decoloniality in Ghana

41 Decoloniality and Racial Capitalism

42 Climate Policy and Social Death: how Euro-American Green New Deals Reinforce the Disposability of African Life in the “Post”-colonial

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