The Palgrave Handbook on Decoloniality in Asia

‘An essential panoramic work that proves beyond doubt that decolonization is a planetary force for mobilization and change.’ —Sabelo J Ndlovu Gatsheni, Professor, University of Bayreuth, Germany, and author of Beyond Coloniality of Internationalism: Reworlding the World from the Global South ‘An erudite, heartening, imaginative and unremitting examination of coloniality in Asia. Surely to be a read for years to come, this book offers a fearless critique of colonial epistemology, practice, and policy. Crafting new tools for empirical and epistemic inquiry, we are invited to engage possibilities for a just world beyond 'destroying the Masters' house with the Master's tools.’ —Tamari Kitossa, Professor, Brock University, Department of Sociology, Canada This Handbook brings together a plethora of decolonial perspectives from and about Asian countries beyond Southeast Asia. Complementing existing scholarship on decolonisation in Latin America and Africa, emerging and established scholars from the Global North and the Global South cover politically urgent, vital and underexplored topics from the social sciences and humanities. An important compendium, more than 25 original contributions bring debates happening in various parts of the world strongly into conversation with similar debates in the West where there has been little reciprocal exchange. Bringing to the fore the importance of a paradigm shift within academia, this first-of-its-kind Handbook is useful for policy-makers, scholars and students of postcolonial and decolonial studies, sociology, development studies and social movements. Phoebe Zoe Maria U. Sanchez is retired Professor of Sociology and History, University of the Philippines Cebu, and refugee research fellow at the Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (DeZIM-Institut) in Berlin, Germany under the Alexander von Humboldt – Philipp Schwartz Initiative for Scholars at Risk (SAR). Regletto Aldrich D. Imbong is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of the Philippines Cebu. Matthew Ming Tak Chew is Associate Professor at the Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Caroline M. Schöpf is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of the Philippines Diliman.