Convening Black Intimacy: Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa

This book is a systematic and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere.

This book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere. The essays engage in the work of thinking through words to generate a conceptual vocabulary that will allow for a global conversation on social theory which will be necessarily multilingual.
With essays by scholars, across generations, and from a variety of disciplines – history, anthropology, and philosophy to literature and political theory – this book will be essential reading for scholars, researchers, and students of critical theory and the social sciences.

Authors

 Dilip Menon, Amy Niang, Arjun Appadurai, Ciao Simoes de Araujo, Cynthia Kros, David Szanton, Edgar C Taylor, Edwin Etieyibo, Francesa Orsini, Hlonipha Mokeona, Iracema Dulley, Jay ke-schuttle, John Wright, Kaveh Yazdani, Magid Shihade, Mahmood Kooria, Mahvish Ahmad, Noha Fikry, Saarah Jappie, Saul Thomas, Shalinee Kumari, Shonaleeka  Kaul, William R Pinch.