Traditional research has centered on the subjugation of indigenous and marginalized people, and comparative and international education (CIE) research is no different. Interest in challenging the long-held structures within the field of CIE has increased over the past decades. A growing number of authors and researchers are interested in a critical approach towards their subjects and have sought to decenter colonial structures perpetuated within modernity. And yet, modern implications of coloniality persist in every field of research. For a paradigm shift to occur, (post)coloniality and racial capitalism must be interrogated from multiple perspectives, positionalities, and cultural contexts.

For this special issue, we are seeking articles on the following themes but welcome additional works on decoloniality and racial capitalism:

• How we may use Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies from the South to rethink and engage with scholarship in CIE;
• How Black Feminist Studies and Indigenous Feminist studies may help us to unmask coloniality from comparative perspectives;
• How Pluriverse thinking can help us to decenter CIE from its European and Western epistemological underpinnings;
• How new and/or non-conventional onto-epistemologies can shape the field;
• How post-humanist frameworks in CIE studies can help us to understand better and overcome the rising challenges of the Anthropocene era;
• How alternative axiological articulations of observed phenomena through comparative perspective-taking may influence and help us cope with the concurrent global crises;
• How CIE scholarship from the Global South can reenergize and redefine the pluralistic and multidimensional character of CIE;
• How we recognize and mainstream the contributions of comparative scholars from the Global South to the historical development of the field;
• How can we bring our white colleagues along the process of decoloniality;
• What forms does transversal knowledge take in CIE;
• Other related or extensions of these themes.

Guest editors: tavis d. jules (Loyola University Chicago), Florin D. Salajan (North Dakota State University), Benjamin D. Scherrer (SUNY Oswego), Anna Becker (Polish Academy of Sciences), Tinesh Indrarajah (Loyola University Chicago)

Deadline for complete manuscripts: 1 June 2025

Please read the complete call here.