New Series From Pluto Press: Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons
Pluto Press. Independent Progressive Publishing started a new book series titled De-Colonial Studies, Post-Colonial Horizons, edited by Barnor Hesse and S. Sayyid.
This book series is concerned with exploring the political and cultural forms that decolonization now needs to take within the west/non-west, in the global context of an incomplete postcolonial era. It asks, what is and should be the contemporary relation between postcolonial conditions and decolonizing imperatives? In particular our reference to postcolonial horizons refers to those ‘experiences’ accruing from the varied and uneven processes of decolonization. In this, we are drawing attention to the formal postcolonial era as the horizon within which movements towards decolonization in politics, culture and epistemology were both facilitated and frustrated and where contextually different continuities of coloniality are fused and imbricated, in complex and often paradoxical ways. Within that lineage, what we refer to as de/colonial studies are concerned to reinvigorate a contemporary meaning for de/colonization. One concerned with the ambiguities and ambivalences of incomplete and partial forms of decolonization, particularly given new forms of western imperial aspirations that currently shape the world in racially hierarchical, cosmopolitan and consumerist terms. We are asking what kinds of politics can decentre and contest the recentring of western arrogated rights of rule? How can we develop decolonized and multicultural reformations of knowledge, polities, economies and societies? In this, we are drawing attention to hegemonic assemblages of colonialism and liberalism and political/cultural dependencies which are no longer usefully conceived as organized through Cold war Left/Right distinctions either politically or intellectually. This book series seeks to provide radical and new analyses of the complex dynamic between the continuities of coloniality and the protracted interruptions of decolonization that continue to underwrite the political and intellectual cultures of the world. The editors of the De/colonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons book series seek book manuscripts that will open up, explore and advance our understanding of these cross-cultural issues and interdisciplinary questions.
For more information, check out the series at the Pluto Books website.