Aims and Scope

Decolonial Perspectives publishes original research that advances theoretical and empirical understandings of decolonisation as a practice, process, and epistemic project. The journal is committed to platforming knowledge produced from and about the Global South, as well as marginalised communities worldwide, while critically interrogating Eurocentric paradigms in academic knowledge production.

The journal particularly welcomes manuscripts that address the following thematic areas:

• Theories and praxis of decolonisation in academic, institutional, and community settings
• Critiques of Eurocentric epistemology and the politics of knowledge production
• Postcolonial and decolonial approaches in education, social science, and the humanities
• Indigenous knowledge systems, sovereignty, and rights
• Race, gender, and intersectionality within colonial and postcolonial frameworks
• Globalisation, neocolonialism, and structural inequalities
• Decolonial methodologies and ethics in research
• Language, discourse, and representation in the context of colonialism

Aims

Decol aims to:

• Advance global scholarship on critical ecology, intersectionality, and decolonial thought.
• Center Indigenous, local, and community-based knowledge systems in ecological research.
• Interrogate how gender, race, ethnicity, disability, class, sexuality, and other social categories shape ecological conditions and vulnerabilities.
• Challenge dominant epistemologies by foregrounding alternative cosmologies, relational ontologies, and embodied ways of knowing.
• Foster interdisciplinary conversations across the humanities, social sciences, environmental studies, and allied fields.
• Promote justice-oriented research that contributes to equitable ecological futures.

Scope

Decol invites manuscripts that explore, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• Intersectional ecologies: gendered, racialized, ethnicized, disabled, and classed environments.
• Indigenous ecological knowledge, cosmologies, and land relations.
• Embodiment, body–earth relations, and ecological subjectivity.
• Political ecology, climate justice, extractive conflicts, and environmental governance.
• Colonialism, settler structures, and decolonial approaches to environment.
• Ecofeminism, Indigenous feminisms, critical race ecology, crip ecology, and queer ecology.
• Narratives, storytelling, myth, ritual, art, literature, and performance as ecological knowledge.
• Multispecies relations, human–nonhuman entanglements, and posthumanist theory.
• Environmental humanities, cultural ecology, and ecological ethics.
• Ethnography, participatory methods, community-engaged research, and activist scholarship.