CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Anthem Handbook on New Directions in Decolonial Theory

The editors invite chapter submissions for the Anthem Handbook on New Directions in Decolonial Theory.

This edited collection responds to a growing unease within decolonial scholarship and practice. The language of decolonization has become increasingly prominent across the social sciences, humanities, and public discourse, but its political, epistemic, and ethical force is being steadily hollowed out by institutionalization and performative compliance. This volume takes that tension as its heart. As such, it does not seek to stabilize decolonization as a settled framework, but to treat it as a site of provocation.

The volume is deliberately positioned as a bridge across the social sciences, the humanities, and public discourse. It aims to bring together scholars working in decolonial, Black, Indigenous, feminist, and abolitionist traditions, not to offer a unified theory, but to stage encounters between concepts, struggles, and methodological imaginaries that are often considered separately.

Submission Requirements

Contributors are invited to submit an original 250-word abstract by 30 September 2026. In your submission, please indicate under which section your chapter fits best. All abstracts must be submitted to the editorial assistant, Simran Juglal (Simran.Juglal@mandela.ac.za), and copied to the co-editors, Prof Shirley Anne Tate (shirleya@ualberta.ca), Prof Michalinos Zembylas (m.zembylas@ouc.ac.cy), and Prof André Keet (Andre.Keet@mandela.ac.za). The final decision regarding acceptance/rejection will be at the sole discretion of the editors.

Key Dates

• Abstract Submission - 30th September, 2026

• Notification of Accepted Chapters - 31st October, 2026

• Full Chapter Submissions - 30th April, 2027

Please see the full call here:

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