A Critical Synergy - Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises

Practitioners of decolonial theory and critical race theory (CRT) often use one or the other, but not both. In his provocative book, A Critical Synergy, Ali Meghji suggests using the two theories in tandem rather than attempting to hierarchize or synthesize them. Doing so allows for the study of social phenomena in a way that captures their global and historical roots, while acknowledging their local, national, and contemporary particularities. The differences between decolonial thought and CRT, Meghji insists, does not necessarily imply one approach is stronger. Rather, he asserts, they often provide alternative but not incompatible viewpoints of the same social problem. Meghji presents case studies of capitalism, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis, and twenty-first-century far-right populism to show that with both theories, we can understand more, as insights may be lost by using only one. Meghji is not calling for a universal theoretical synthesis in A Critical Synergy, but rather a practice that can help open sociology and social science to the tradition of pluriversality much more broadly.

General

Imprint:	Temple University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Ali Meghji
Dimensions:	210 x 140mm (L x W)
Pages:	210
ISBN-13:	978-1-4399-2206-4
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-4399-2206-3
Barcode:	9781439922064

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