Decolonial Imaginings - Intersectional Conversations and Contestations

A transdisciplinary study of the ways in which mobilities assume social forms and result in multiple belongings.

In Decolonial Imaginings, Avtar Brah offers a transdisciplinary study of the ways in which mobilities assume social forms and result in multiple belongings. Situated within the confluence of decolonial feminist theory, border theory, and diaspora studies, the book explores borders and boundaries and how politics of connectivity are produced in and through struggles over “difference.” Brah examines multiple formations of power embedded in the intersections between gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality. She analyzes this intersectionality in relation to diaspora; theorizes the relationship between diaspora, law, and literature; and between affect, memory, and cultural politics.
 
Discussing the crossings of impervious borders, Brah foregrounds the economies of abandonment, particularly the plight of people in boats