DISSONANT INTIMACIES, Feminist Reflections on Southern Decoloniality

220pp., paperback, Wits University Press, Johannesburg, 2026 

ISBN: 9781776149902

Srila Roy explores recent interventions into higher education that seek to produce new forms of knowledge and solidarity across gender, race, caste and location/borders, and reflects on the limits and possibilities of a global decolonial feminist agenda in the Global South.

Roy has found the practice of transnational feminism difficult, even fraught, when faced with movements such as South Africa’s Fees Must Fall, India’s #MeToo and resistance to the genocide in Palestine. She reminds us that the Global South is not one thing, raising the stakes for decolonial feminist knowledge production and transnational solidarity while stressing the importance of building new epistemic infrastructures that orient us towards the South.

Srila Roy is Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, and the author of Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India and Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence, and Subjectivity in India’s Naxalbari Movement.