Decolonizing Globalization Studies

Abstract

In this essay, I argue that scholarship on globalization needs to be decolonized in three ways. First, Northern theory on globalization and transnational processes must be brought into conversation with work produced by scholars in the Global South. Second, we need to examine how looking at global and transnational phenomena from “other” epistemological perspectives could tell a different story of global processes and open up new possibilities for collective futures. Third, we must build knowledge on globalization from below, centering the theorizing, knowledge claims, and praxis of research participants. Blurring the lines between producers and objects of knowledge has the potential to contribute to the decolonization of our disciplines and also to improve the quality of our scholarship. My argument draws in particular from Raewyn Connell, Arturo Escobar, transnational feminism, and indigenous theories of subjectivity and ongoing colonialism.

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