Beyond the decolonial: Critical Muslim geographies

Abstract

This paper considers selected decolonial moves in geography, building on engagements with postcolonial theory since the 1990s and earlier currents of radical geography. Whilst the paper charts their interactions, including the impacts of selective intellectual influences from Latin America, it foregrounds Muslim geographies. The decolonization of Muslim geographies questions concepts and upgrades terminology, and speaks to crucial interfaces of circuits of capital, economic and political geographies and area studies. Such moves entail relearning from epistemological, social and spatial ‘peripheries’ and establish connections, notably with Black geographies. The conclusions consider how such links transcend decolonial geographies.