Perspectives on colonial violence “from below”: Decolonial resistance, healing, and justice in/against the neoliberal academy.

A false peace: Bringing racism and race into peace scholarship in the metropole.

“…Moreover, many mainstream Eurocentric views of peace suggest that conflict from above and below is equally reprehensible (see Dutta & Atallah, 2023). The measures and concepts used by many peace scholars and organizations suggest that a developed system of laws and social order is an antidote to conflict, even when it produces or protects injustice.…”

“…For instance, Davenport et al (2018, p. 186) note that peace is not simply the end of violence but is “defined in such a way that it can be observed in any society or any relationship between groups.” Examining which groups have equitable access to peace and justice in society is connected to deconstructing systemic racism and its corollaries, direct, structural, and cultural violence. Dutta and Atallah (2023) argued that the prevailing European and U.S. hegemonic concepts of peace and violence often fail to incorporate perspectives from the global South and to address the issue of White supremacy. Our article complements their efforts by shifting the emphasis away from dominant hegemonic ideas of peace and conflict.…”

Decolonization unnamed: Echoes of healing and refusal in the face of dehumanization and alienation.

“…In the first part of our two-part special issue (Dutta & Atallah, 2023), we focused on the neoliberal academy as a key site for the production of colonial violence. We sought to understand and countermove the weight of the harm of academic institutions and Western/Global North knowledge systems by highlighting everyday praxis of Black, Indigenous, People of Color and Global South peoples as they resist coloniality in the academy.…”