What It Means to Belong in the Global South: A Coda to Two Special Issues on ‘Wrestling with (Not) Belonging’
Journal: Knowledge Cultures
Year: 2024

Belonging, as this special issue demonstrates, is no simple matter. Indeed, the complexity of the topic demanded a double issue to make space for the many and varied ways in which (not) belonging can make itself felt. Notably, the (not) of (not) belonging in this collection transcends the rationalist reduction of ontology to negative difference, whereby we know what something is through its relation to what it is not. Many contributions acknowledge the injustice of colonial concepts of belonging