Learning Disobedience

'Murrey and Daley take no prisoners in their sharp decolonial analysis, they are not apologetic in their decolonial critique development, and they are fired up in their envisioning of the future. 'Learning Disobedience' is far from a post-development treatise, it is a work of dismantlement of that which harms humanity in the name of humanity.'

-- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, author of 'Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism: Reworlding the World from the Global South'

'This is the book we’ve all been waiting for to divest from Development Studies. It engages the abolitionist imperative as imaginable, intelligible, and doable; as a labour of love, solidarity and abundance rather than refusal or 'cancel culture'.'

-- Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa, Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science

'Invites us to abolish development, not as simple rejection, but as a life-affirming pathway into liberation and freedom beyond coloniality. Development is violence actively producing impoverishment, epistemic dispossession, and erasing peoples of the Global South knowledges, experiences, and sensibilities. Through a plurality of African intellectual anticolonial and decolonial archives and musical soundtracks of liberation, Murrey and Daley enacts a practice of epistemic disobedience that refuses colonial heteropatriarchal and racial global imaginaries of international aid and humanitarian interventions. Full of intellectual energy and radical love for the learning possibilities of autonomy, communities of struggle and marronage … a must-read’

-- Dr Rosalba Icaza, Professor of Global Politics, Feminisms and Decoloniality, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Netherl