Decolonial Entanglements

This book responds to a critical geopolitical moment where decolonial thought, praxis, and pedagogy confront urgent questions of resistance in the face of Palestinian genocide and scholasticide, alongside other forms of state-sanctioned colonial violence against Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and displaced peoples worldwide.

Establishing solidarity across diverse movements, while respecting their unique histories and contexts, this volume embraces relational methodologies that foster dissent, points of tension, and conjunctures, and at the same time advances pedagogical practices aimed toward coalition-building. By bringing together anticolonial concepts, decolonial methodologies, and abolitionist thought, it challenges colonial systems of knowledge amplifying theoretical frameworks and practical pedagogical approaches that center knowledge rooted in collective struggles and movements. Together, the chapters serve to emphasize interconnectedness among distinct liberation projects, and to offer a shared vision for decolonial futures grounded in pedagogies of solidarity and internationalism.

Essential for academics and graduate students in decolonial and abolitionist studies in education, international and comparative education, philosophy and sociology of education, and globalization studies.

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies at Texas Tech University. He is the Program Chair of the Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education SIG for the American Educational Research Association. His research is situated at the intersection of sociocultural studies in curriculum theory, decolonial theory, critical ethnography, and social movement research. Currently, he is advancing what he calls insurgent decolonial theory to situate thought in sites of struggle. He has published articles in Theory, Culture & Society, Globalisation, Societies and Education, Sociology Compass, and Educational Studies. He is also the co-editor of the Bristol University Press book series Decolonization and Social Worlds, lead editor of the Routledge book series Decolonial Entanglements: Praxis, Pedagogy, and Social Theory, and lead editor of The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory.

Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán is an Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Her research focuses on the living experiences of citizenship and belonging of transnational Latine youth, intergenerational schooling experiences of Black families in the US, and decolonial thought and praxis. She has published articles in Curriculum Inquiry, Theory & Research in Social Education, and Educational Studies.

Nathalia E. Jaramillo is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of Immigration and the Challenge of Education (2012) and coeditor of Epistemologies of Ignorance in Education (2011) and Disrupting Colonial Pedagogies: Theories and Transgressions (2024). Her scholarship engages feminist, decolonial, and critical pedagogical frameworks to examine how knowledge, identity, and power are constructed and contested across educational and social contexts. Jaramillo has written extensively in the fields of critical educational thought and the politics of education. Across her teaching and writing, she seeks to cultivate spaces of epistemic justice and community-centered transformation within and beyond the academy.