The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory

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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... More About Author

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. She currently serves as chair for the Decolonial, Postcolonial and Anti-colonial Studies in Education SIG at the American Educational Research Association. More About Author

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is currently Research Professor and Director of Scholarship at the Department of Leadership and Transformation (DLT) in the Principal and Vice-Chancellor’s Office at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Professor Ndlovu-Gatsheni has published over a hundred publications and his major book publications include Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity (New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, June 2013); Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa: Myths of Decolonization (Dakar: CODESRIA, 2013); Decolonizing the University, Knowledge Systems and Disciplines (North Carolina, Carolina Academic Press,... More About Author

Sandeep Bakshi researches transnational queer and decolonial enunciation of knowledges. He received his PhD from the School of English, University of Leicester, UK, and is currently employed as an Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Queer Literatures and Literary Translation at the University of Paris. He coordinates two research seminars, “Peripheral Knowledges” and “Empires, Souths, Sexualities,” and heads the “Gender and Sexuality Studies” research group. Co-editor of Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions (Oxford: Counterpress, 2016) and Decolonial Trajectories, special issue of Interventions ... More About Author

Agustin Lao-Montes has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York–Binghamton. He is a  Professor of Sociology & Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst. His fields of specialty include world-historical sociology and globalization, political sociology (especially social movements and the sociology of state and nationalism), social identities and social inequalities, sociology of race and ethnicity, urban sociology/community-university partnerships, African Diaspora and Latino Studies, sociology of culture and cultural studies, and contemporary theory and postcolonial critique. He has published numerous articles on... More About Author

Flavia Rios is a Professor of Sociology at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil. She was a Visiting Student Researcher Collaborator (VSRC) in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University (2013).   Her main interests are Social Movements, racial inequalities, Affirmative Actions, and Black thought. Flavia’s current research focuses on intersections between gender, race, and democracy. She is the author of numerous articles building upon Black decolonial feminisms and struggles in Brazil. More About Author