CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue: Decolonial Critical Theories: an ecology of knowledge

CALL FOR PAPERS – Decolonial Critical Theories: an ecology of knowledge

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Bruno Ferreira Freire Andrade Lira (UEL) e Prof. Dr. Rogério de Souza Medeiros (UFPB)

Papers submission to TOMO Special Issue on “Decolonial Critical Theories: an ecology of knowledge” is now open. With this SI, we aim to promote a critical debate that updates the diverse and plural decolonial perspective that various research networks have been strengthening in recent decades in Brazil and Latin America. Ongoing researchers considering the theoretical-epistemic reflection on this topic (decolonial studies) and developed by The Group of Studies and Research in Political Sociology, from the Graduate Program in Sociology at UFPB (GRESP-PPGS-UFPB), point out that decolonial turns promoted by the Modernity/Coloniality concept, made possible the development of an Ecology of Knowledge - African Diaspora in Latin America, Interculturality and Buen Vivir, Dialogic Pedagogy and Action Research, and Decolonial Feminism – which currently frame the Decolonial Critical Theories. These Ecology of Knowledge start from a common ground, the critique of the modern/capitalist/colonial world-system that is structured in hierarchies and forms of social classification that intersect through colonial power matrices – the coloniality of power, knowledge, being and gender. Our assumption is that the fractured locus is concretized through endless violent processes of dehumanization and genocide. However, the same colonial fracture produces forms of (re-)existence that resignify colonial differences, promoting the appreciation and self-recognition of political identities and subalternized sociocultural aspects. Thus, this SI proposes to bring together papers dedicated to the strained reality between coloniality/decoloniality, the critical reflections on the work of intellectuals from Decolonial Critical Theories, and the (re-)existences that emerged in the decolonial turn. Among other subtopics that are of interest of this SI are: Intersectional inequalities; Decolonial Feminism; Interculturality and Indigenous knowledge; Latin American and Caribbean Afro-Diasporic Thought; Post-development; Decolonial pedagogy.