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Postcolonial Networks brings together scholars, activists, and leaders with the urgency of a movement to foster decolonized relationships, innovative scholarship, and social transformation.

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Postcolonialism

Postcolonial Empathy is Not a One-Way Red Arrow Strategy

April 16th, 2014|

"Empathy is a messy equation that requires deep listening, requires yielding to perspectives different from and that challenge my perspective, and requires making sense of histories in relation to contemporary contexts."

The Postcolonial Church: Theology, Identity, and Mission | St. Paul’s University; Limuru, Kenya | May 2014

March 15th, 2014|

The May 2014 meeting on "The Postcolonial Church: Theology, Identity, and Mission" is on the horizon!

Pamphletarian Theology with Cláudio Carvalhaes: Kiran Sebastian on Liturgy and Postcolonialism

March 15th, 2014|

We will find common breathings of the Spirit in our midst, so we can share a common, even if radically different, enthusiasm/en-theos-ism (being possessed by God) in our lives!

Book Release: Caste, Gender, and Christianity in Colonial India

November 22nd, 2013|

Our congratulations to James Elisha Taneti, author of the forthcoming Caste, Gender, and Christianity in Colonial India: Telugu Women in Mission, which will be the third volume in the Postcolonialism and Religions series, a partnership between Postcolonial Networks and Palgrave MacMillan.

UPDATE: Pressing On: Legacy of Marcella Althaus-Reid, July 9-12, 2013, Buenos Aires

June 19th, 2013|

Check out the schedule of presenters and activities for an amazing conference, sponsored by Postcolonial Networks, ISEDET, and GEMRIP, that brings together postcolonial and queer theological and theoretical approaches!

Review of Jessica Langer’s Postcolonialism And Science Fiction. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.

October 14th, 2012|

Langer, Jessica. Postcolonialism And Science Fiction. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. 1x +188pp.
Reviewer: Rodney Thomas Jr., miteewarrior@hotmail.com
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to watch Kenya’s first science fiction motion picture, a 22-minute silent short film entitled “Pumzi.” The setting is a dystopian future where Nairobi culture has been repressed by scientific […]

Reflections on Knowledge, Criticism, and the Intellectual

February 6th, 2012|

There is beauty in the composite, mosaic-like character of the subject, as well as in that of epistemology. Any exercise in knowledge production, if it is to significantly assist us in plumbing the depths of wisdom and expanding the contours of any understanding of freedom we currently have, has to take account of the multiple epistemic modes that together bring us closer to wholeness. No discipline on its own has what it takes to enlarge our collective way of being; injustice has drawn on a variety of disciplines to shore itself up and therefore justice cannot be expected to do any less.