Beyond Decolonisation: Bridging Disciplines, Rethinking Futures

A bold and timely intervention, Beyond Decolonisation: Bridging Disciplines, Rethinking Futures asks the question many have avoided: what comes after decolonisation? Moving across education, law, culture, migration, and philosophy, this interdisciplinary volume explores how colonial power endures and how more just, plural, and imaginative futures can be made. Grounded in African and global contexts, it goes beyond critique to offer fresh thinking on transformation, belonging, epistemic justice, and human flourishing. Urgent, original, and wide-ranging, this is an essential book for anyone rethinking knowledge, institutions, and possibility in the contemporary world.

Authors

Jonathan Jansen is Professor of Education at Stellenbosch University and Past President of the Academy of Science of South Africa. As a curriculum theorist, he specialises in the politics and poetics of knowledge.

Shireen Motala is NRF/DHET SARChI Chair: Teaching and Learning (Tier 1) at the University of Johannesburg. Prof Motala has held numerous leadership roles related to higher education. An NRF-rated researcher, her research record is substantial.

Marcina Singh is an interdisciplinary higher education researcher working between South Africa and the Netherlands. She previously served as the Acting Deputy Director at the Centre for International Teacher Education, at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.