Interventions: Bringing the decolonial to political geography

Within and outside geography there is a strong interest in the inequities between states and peoples. While work in political geography, particularly in critical and feminist geopolitics, deconstructs discourse and peoples narratives as we seek to understand and represent these inequities, in many cases scholarship remains embedded in western ways of knowing and understanding the world (see: Sharp 2013a,b). Additionally, even as we
undertake critical analysis we tend to rely on a discourse of a bifurcated globe, cultivating a problematic north-south divide (Murphy, 2013; see also; Naylor, 2014). This global division largely ignores the geopolitics of knowledge production, as well as the scale of empire, which creates multiple and competing peripheries
and signals the need for a reframing or retheorizing that is attentive to multiple and diverse ways of knowing and understanding the world. The main drive of these interventions is to show new ways to incorporate such ways of knowing and being into postcolonial discussions in political geography through decolonial theory.