The Coloniality of Humanity: Disrupting Racialized Capitalism and Fostering Transnational Solidarity

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This edited volume critically examines the coloniality of humanity and how it affects colonized and racialized people in both the Global South and Global North.
The contributors reveal how ongoing geopolitical power imbalances are rooted in colonial histories and colonial structures which perpetuate global inequalities. The volume explores how these entrenched colonial systems intersect with gender, class, disability, and other social factors, often overlooked in mainstream discussions of global inequality. By synthesizing empirical research and theoretical perspectives on race and colonialism across various historical and geographical contexts, it emphasizes the importance of combining postcolonial research with decolonial praxis. Through the perspectives of scholars and activists from the Global South, the book aims to decolonize knowledge production and challenge the continuing dominance of coloniality.

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This volume offers a powerful transnational intervention into the persistent structures of coloniality that shape our current moment. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from across the Global South and North, it critically examines the geopolitics of racialized capitalism, migration regimes, and epistemic violence. The editors have curated a timely and urgent collection that resists the reductive framing of decolonization as metaphor and instead insists on accountability, relationality, and material transformation. Its a valuable resource for those committed to unsettling dominant knowledge systems and imagining liberatory futures rooted in both refusal and solidarity. * K. Bailey Thomas, University of Rhode Island *

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Robel Afeworki Abay is sociologist and guest professor of participatory approaches in social and health sciences at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin.
Isabelle Ihring is professor of social work with a focus on youth at the Evangelische Hochschule Freiburg.
Faisal M. Garba is associate professor of sociology at the University of Cape Town and associate professor of sociology, migration and mobility at the Africa Institute, Sharjah.