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Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Janet M. Conway
Brock University
2
Revathi Krishnaswamy
San Jose State University
3
Tija Uhlig
Unknown
4
Aisya Aymanee M. Zaharin
The University of Queensland
5
Maria Dubrova
Northumbria University
6
Christina Pauls
University of Augsburg
7
Nesreen Hussein
University of Bern
8
Ali Meghji
University of Cambridge
9
Marie Deridder
UCLouvain
10
Meike Lettau
University of Hildesheim

Rising Stars Papers

1
From Public Sociology to Sociological Publics: The Importance of Reverse Tutelage to Social Theory
Sociological Theory|2024
33 cit.
2
Du Boisian sociology after Du Bois: Frazier, St Clair Drake, and the global and comparative study of race and empire
Sociological Forum|2024
16 cit.
3
Early Remnants of Global Historical Sociology: Methodological Innovations Among Classical Black Sociologists
Sociology Lens|2025
7 cit.
4
Why Now? Thoughts on the Du Boisian Revolution
Sociology Compass|2024
6 cit.
5
Sociologists as change agents? Thoughts on Lamont’s <i>Seeing Others</i>
Ethnic and Racial Studies|2024
5 cit.
6
“Peace Is Dangerous”: Toward a Du Boisian Theory of Colonial Post-fascism
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity|2024
5 cit.
7
Struggles over memory?
Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung|2024
5 cit.
8
Participatory methodological approaches for regenerative cultural policy. The case study of cultural mapping in the public library of Ravensburg
International Journal of Cultural Policy|2025
5 cit.
9
Epistemological shifts, power imbalances and conflicts at documenta fifteen: decolonial cultural policy conceptions beyond Eurocentric universalism
International Journal of Cultural Policy|2024
4 cit.
10
Theorizing Power, Difference and the Politics of Social Change: Problems and Possibilities in Assemblage Thinking
UNC Libraries|2025
4 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira
Berlin University of the Arts
2
Zhivka Valiavicharska
Pratt Institute
3
Jevgeniy Bluwstein
Institute of Social Sciences
4
Victoria Louisa Klinkert
University of London
5
Axel Köhler
Unknown
6
Alexander Stauß
University of Applied Sciences Erfurt
7
Fadzai Muchemwa
Unknown
8
Daniel Díez Martínez
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
9
Anny Flore Tchouta Mbiah
University of Maroua
10
Emma Penney
Unknown

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Making sense of (the Russian war in) Ukraine: On the politics of knowledge and expertise
Political Geography|2022
29 cit.
2
Rescaling the land rush? Global political ecologies of land use and cover change in key scenario archetypes for achieving the 1.5 °C Paris agreement target
The Journal of Peasant Studies|2022
24 cit.
3
Securing conservation Lebensraum? The geo-, bio-, and ontopolitics of global conservation futures
Geoforum|2023
7 cit.
4
Political ecologies of the future: Introduction to the special issue
Geoforum|2024
6 cit.
5
Carbon leakage as capital’s spatial fix: the challenges of governing the green transition through carbon border adjustments
Globalizations|2025
4 cit.
6
Science as a site of inequality
Environmental Science & Policy|2024
3 cit.
7
Análisis y comunicación: recursos docentes para acercar la profesión a la sociedad
Unknown Journal|2023
1 cit.
8
The Trouble with Carbon Budgets, Offsets and Removals in Climate Litigation against States: The Case of KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland at the ECtHR
European Journal of International Law|2025
1 cit.
9
O som e o poder
(Des)troços revista de pensamento radical|2022
0 cit.
10
¡Splitnik! Historia, análisis y reconstitución gráfica de la casa que calentó la Guerra Fría
EGA Revista de expresión gráfica arquitectónica|2022
0 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Madina Tlostanova
Linköping University
2
Arturo Escobar
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3
Ronald L. Simons
University of Georgia
4
Laura Pulido
Asociación por los Derechos Civiles
5
Richa Nagar
Amity University
6
Garrick Cooper
University of Canterbury
7
Raili Marling
University of Tartu
8
Rolando Vázquez
University of Amsterdam
9
Pamela M. Lee
Public Works
10
Vanessa Andreotti
University of Oulu

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.
Population and Development Review|1995
5.5k cit.
2
Culture sits in places: reflections on globalism and subaltern strategies of localization
Political Geography|2001
1.6k cit.
3
Economic Stress, Coercive Family Process, and Developmental Problems of Adolescents
Child Development|1994
1.6k cit.
4
Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California
Annals of the Association of American Geographers|2000
1.5k cit.
5
Economic Stress, Coercive Family Process, and Developmental Problems of Adolescents
Child Development|1994
1.3k cit.
6
WORLDS AND KNOWLEDGES OTHERWISE
Cultural Studies|2007
929 cit.
7
After Nature
Current Anthropology|1999
928 cit.
8
Trajectories of stressful life events and depressive symptoms during adolescence.
Developmental Psychology|1994
796 cit.
9
Geographies of race and ethnicity II
Progress in Human Geography|2016
784 cit.
10
LATIN AMERICA AT A CROSSROADS
Cultural Studies|2010
738 cit.

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