Decolonizing Bodies

Decolonizing Bodies reveals both resilience and vulnerabilities of the sensuous bodies as the foundation of meaning, experience, and transformation. The rich collection of personal, scholarly, and artistic stories invites the readers to engage their own bodily awareness to sense and feel with the authors. The book is a call for reimagining the way we embody our communities and relationships through decolonial healing. * Sachi Sekimoto, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA *Ureña & Varma’s generative, wide-ranging, multi-genre collection puts flesh and blood on decolonizing as a mode of being-perceiving-theorizing that reorients our attunement to self and world and conclusively transforms our creative and scholarly practice. Whether analyzing urban gardens in Kashmir and Colombia, reading racist US archives or mapping a process-driven exploration for a film in progress, each contribution enacts a vital aspect of the reclamation and reinterpretation integral to decolonizing knowledge. * Lata Mani, author of Myriad Intimacies and director of The Poetics of Fragility. *

Carolyn Ureña is the Director of Academic Advising in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Saiba Varma is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, USA.