Reimagining Decoloniality Through Fluid Ways of Knowing: Watery Epistemologies
About this ebook
This book explores how water functions as both a material reality and an epistemological metaphor for rethinking knowledge production from decolonial and Global South perspectives.
It brings together scholars from diverse disciplines to examine how water – rivers, oceans, rain and aquatic cosmologies – shapes ways of knowing, remembering and relating to the environment. The chapters critically interrogate dominant Western epistemologies and foreground Southern and decolonial epistemologies.
The book seeks to recover marginalized knowledge traditions and challenge dominant academic Eurocentric frameworks proposing water as a generative site for reimagining knowledge production.
It contributes to ongoing debates in decolonial studies, environmental humanities, education and African studies, offering new metaphors, methodologies and paths towards solidarity and collaboration.
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About the author
Susan Wairimu Mahachi is an independent scholar and educational consultant with a PhD from Pennsylvania State University, USA. Her research centers on educational theories that seek to create pluriversal learning spaces—spaces that recognize and engage diverse epistemologies while supporting students’ conceptual thinking in science education.
Sinfree Makoni is Liberal Arts Professor of Africana Studies and the inaugural Head of the Department of Africana Studies at Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Phoebe Quaynor is Assistant Teaching Professor in the College of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Pennsylvania State University, USA.
