Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations. Together with Volume Two (Dissolving Master Narratives) and Volume Three (Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy), it gathers thinkers from across world regions and disciplines who reconfigure critical global thought. Collaboratively conceived, the volumes are founded on the observation that we cannot fully uproot the epistemological-material violence of coercive systems, nor fully (re)imagine more ethical visions of planetary community, without shared attention to the deeper histories of place and peoples that shape the present. Accordingly, the volumes gather social scientists and humanists, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, and intersectional and materialist thinkers who reconceptualize longue-durée history and its afterlives. They engage in the dual project to dismantle eurocentric, colonial, androcentric frameworks and to make visible the legacies of care and creative world-making that have sustained human communities. Uncovering pasts that are as complex and dynamic as the present, the contributors brilliantly transform notions of temporality, relationality, polity, conjuncture, resistance and experimentation within histories of struggle and alliance. They richly decolonize political imaginaries. The co-editors’ introductions articulate fresh frameworks of “deep place” and “deep time” freed from eurocentric modernity paradigms, indicating pathways toward decolonial collaboration and institutional change. Decolonial Reconstellations offers invaluable resources for researchers and teachers in decolonial, postcolonial, anti-colonial, and Indigenous studies and will also strongly appeal to feminist, anti-racist, Marxist, and critical theory scholars across disciplines.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction Laura Doyle, Simon Gikandi, Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji 1. A Deep History of Coloniality and Persistent Poverty in the South-Central Andes Douglas Smit and Thomas Leatherman 2. Material and Knowledge Economies in the Western Lower Niger, ca. 1000-1400 CE Akinwumi Ogundiran 3. Buddhism in the Afro-Eurasian World System: Dissent, Gender, and World-making Revathi Krishnaswamy, Dorothy C. Wong, Ben Tran 4. Gendered Scripts and Legacies in the Sahelian Space: Pre-Islamic, Islamic and European Languages Ousseina D. Alidou 5. Embedded Interventions: Undoing Disavowal, Witnessing Coeval Time Laura Doyle 6. Decolonizing Novelistic Conventions: Palimpsestic Readings from the Non-Europhone South Maryam Fatima 7. Deep Time and Historical Accretion in Urban Indigenous Writing Laura M. Furlan 8. Re‑Linking to the Heart of the World: Resistance, Hope, and Solidarity in and beyond Gonawindua, Colombia Julia Suárez-Krabbe 9. Pacific Moves beyond Colonialism: A Continuing Conversation from Hawaiʻi and Guahan Tiara R. Na'Puti and Judy Rohrer Afterword 10. Deep Time and Deep Place: a path towards academic praxis otherwise Rosalba Icaza