The Coloniality of Humanity: Disrupting Racialized Capitalism and Fostering Transnational Solidarity: Robel Afeworki Abay: Bloomsbury Academic

The Coloniality of Humanity

Disrupting Racialized Capitalism and Fostering Transnational Solidarity

The Coloniality of Humanity

Disrupting Racialized Capitalism and Fostering Transnational Solidarity

Description

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.

Table of Contents
Introduction: Epistemological and Political Implications of Analyzing the Coloniality of Humanity by Robel Afeworki Abay, Isabelle Ihring, and Faisal M. Garba
Section I: Silencing the Colonial Past
Foreword by Vanessa E. Thompson
Chapter 1: 'Transgressive' Mobility and the Structuring of Space and Belonging by Rose Jaji
Chapter 2: Coloniality in Refugee/Forced Migration and Health Research: Reflections on Complicity and Disobedience by Diana Podar and Yudit Namer
Chapter 3: Can the African subaltern speak? The Colonial Legacies of Racial Hierarchies in Times of COVID-19 by Robel Afeworki Abay and Nomaswazi Mthombeni
Chapter 4: The Neglected Colonial Legacy of the 1951 Refugee Convention by Edwin O. Abuya, Ulrike Krause, and Lucy Mayblin
Chapter 5: The Construction of the 'West' and the 'Rest' Reloaded by Isabelle Ihring and Faisal M. Garba
Chapter 6: Self-Determination under Coloniality: Cultivating Open-mindedness in South-North Relationships by Jacques Zannou
Section II: Understanding the Postcolonial Present
Foreword by Nomaswazi Mthombeni
Chapter 7: Can Human Rights Help [re]build Community? by Oche Onazi
Chapter 8: The Paradigm of the Camp: COVID-19 and Pandemic Politics in Racialized Capitalism by Robel Afeworki Abay, Tanja Kleibl, Caroline Schmitt and Nikos Xypolytas
Chapter 9: Examining the Colonial and Apartheid Socio-economic Intersectionalities during COVID-19 in South Africa : Implications for Social Policy and Social Justice by Minenhle Matela and Ndangwa Noyoo
Chapter 10: From the Kitchen Table to the Streets: Queer of Colour Reflections on Racial Capitalism by Jin Haritaworn
Chapter 11: School as a Place of Self-experience: Knowledge about Racism from the Perspective of Subjects Who Experience Racism in Germany by Yasmina Gandouz-Touati, Veronika Kourabas, and Paul Mecheril
Chapter 12: The Transatlantic Trade with Enslaved People: Dehumanizing Effects of Slavery and Colonialism upon the Enslaved People by Joseph Wolsing
Chapter 13: When the Circle is Closing: On the Motivation of People of African Descent to Leave Their Home Countries to Live in Ghana by Isabelle Ihring
Section III: Imagining the Decolonial Future
Foreword by Céline Barry
Chapter 14: Resistance and Creating Spaces for Transformation with Smai Tawi/Kemetic Yoga in Germany by Cassandra Ellerbe
Chapter 15: The Importance of Transnational Solidarity in Shaping the Decolonization of Social Work by Janet Ananias and Ursula Kämmerer-Ru¨tten
Chapter 16: Conversation with the Specters of the Camp: Thinking Refugee Resistance through the Lens of the Mass Strike and Convivial Futurity by Céline Barry
Chapter 17: Decolonizing Development Studies: Social Work in the African Perspective and Social Work Considerations in Africa by Zeldah U. Rukambe and Utjiua I. Ndjoonduezu
Chapter 18: Exploring Transformative Relationships towards Decolonizing Social Work Education in Sylhet and Frankfurt by Chaitali Das and Tulshi Kumar Das
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors

Product details

Published	Nov 27 2025
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	336
ISBN	9781666957372
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations	no illus
Dimensions	229 x 152 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

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. It's 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