Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South

This series promotes scholarship that engages with the theory of encryption of power (TEP), which develops insights alongside decolonial theory and critical and subaltern studies. TEP proposes a fresh understanding of how the use of language monopolizes and hides power, preventing access to it through the denial and neutralization of differences based on class, race, and gender.

Books in the series explore how, in the name of the people, the people are made vulnerable to dispossession and exclusion, and how, in the name of democracy, democracy is undermined and potentially destroyed. At the same time, they show how decrypting power opens new horizons of hope: by exposing hidden structures of domination, TEP makes possible the re-imagining of democracy, and collective life beyond the necessity imposed by existing forms of power.