Thinking with the South : reframing research collaboration amid decolonial imperatives and challenges This volume brings together a series of discussions by scholars from a range of disciplinary (trans)regional and epistemic perspectives that came out of the Berlin based co2libri networking initiative with longstanding collaborative partners based in the global South. Co2libri stands for conceptual collaboration: living borderless research interaction . As an interdisciplinary and transregional oriented initiative co2libri envisages a multicentric perspective that integrates neglected positions of Southern theory and praxis into the heart of academic conversations. Co2libri’s collaborative endeavor builds on long standing active connections with partners in Africa South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Instead of setting an agenda from the North it proposes to figure out ways forward through collaborative engagement building on relationships of mutual trust. Using formats that facilitate substantial and open ended discussion we are re thinking theory and method academic practices and research ethics while keeping material inequalities in view.