decolonial

This piece is an edited transcript of a conversation on decolonizing Geography that took place between Lindsay Naylor and Tariq Jazeel in February 2024 in response to the ACME 20+ year anniversary celebrations. As decolonial theory and efforts around decolonizing geography continue to gain momentum, this conversation – between two differently located geographers – reflects on the trajectories, geographies, meanings and (institutional) politics of decoloniality as it has taken shape across the discipline.

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