ABSTRACT

This book promotes constructive and nuanced transdisciplinary understandings of some of the critical problems that we face on a global scale today by thinking with and from the Global South. It is engaged in transmodernising, pluriversalising, decolonising, queering, and/or posthumanising thinking and practice.

The book aims to contribute to and challenge current debates regarding knowledge, diversity, and change. This is achieved through the application of transdisciplinary and indisciplined perspectives to the Himalayan Anthropocene; transport services in Mexico City; the EU-Turkey border regimes and policy; egoism and the decolonisation of whiteness; the Witch and the decolonisation of the gender binary; Nepalese students in Denmark; and the decolonisation of global health promotion. The book thereby provides the reader a multiplicity of pathways of knowledges and practices that address current problems co-produced by the dominant Western colonial onto-epistemic outset, giving way to ‘other’ knowledge-practices, towards a pluriversal approach.

This book will be of interest to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in disciplines such as human geography, development studies, politics, international relations, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, planning, and philosophy. It is also relevant to researchers, development workers and human rights/environmental activists, and other intellectual practitioners.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

Horizons of possibility and scientific research: whose problems, whose solutions?

chapter 1|17 pages

Globalisation in theory and practice

Negotiating belonging in Danish higher education

chapter 2|23 pages

Transmodern philosophy of science in the case of informal transportation in Mexico City

Local ontology and epistemology for transport planning

chapter 4|17 pages

Theorising water, shifting scales

The space of the Himalayan Anthropocene

chapter 5|20 pages

Decolonising gender

Witches, nomads, and the colonial rule

chapter 6|16 pages

Abyssal lines in borders, race, and knowledge

A decolonial perspective on the EU-Turkey joint action plan

chapter 7|18 pages

Over our dead bodies

The death project, egoism, and the existential dimensions of decolonisation