Learning Disobedience

This is a must-read for current struggles for dignity and pluriversal, decolonized solidarity. The authors invite us to abolish development, not as simple rejection, but as a life-affirming pathway into liberation and freedom beyond colonialityRosalba Icaza, Professor, Erasmus University of RotterdamMurrey and Daley take no prisoners in their sharp decolonial analysisSabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, author ofBeyond the Coloniality of InternationalismThe book weve all been waiting for to divest from development studies. It engages the abolitionist imperative as intelligible and doable; as a labour of love, solidarity and abundanceOlivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics and Political ScienceThis is a book about teaching with disobedient pedagogies from the heart of empire. The authors show how educators, activists and students are cultivating anti-racist decolonial practices, leading with a radical call to eradicate development studies, and counterbalancing this with new projects to decolonize development, particularly in African geographies. Building on the works of other decolonial trailblazers, the authors show how colonial legacies continue to shape the ways in which land, well-being, progress and development are conceived of and practiced. How do we, through our classroom and activist practices, work collaboratively to create the radical imaginaries and practical scaffolding we need for decolonizing development? Being intentionally disobedient in the classroom is central to decolonizingdevelopment studies.Amber Murreyis an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford. Amber is the editor ofA Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politicsand Legacies of Thomas Sankara.Patricia Daleyis Professor of the Human Geography of Africa and The Helen Morag Fellow in Geography at Jesus College, Oxford. She co-edited, with Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh,The Routledge Handbook on South-South Relations.