Groundings

The Journal of the Walter Rodney Foundation

Print ISSN: 2515-2106 / e-ISSN: 2573-069X

This journal is a space for critical academic work that directly or indirectly reflects the legacies of Dr. Walter Rodney’s powerful body of scholarship. This includes but is not limited to: issues of development and political economy; Black and Third World Marxisms; Pan-Africanism and transnational Black Studies; Caribbean culture, history, and politics; race, class and intersectionality; epistemology and philosophy; and all manner of related critical decolonial theory and radical historiography. In addition to the peer-reviewed base of the journal, we will continue some of our earlier newsletter functions in a small section at the end of most issues, to share updates on WRF and other Rodney related activities around the world; art, culture, politics from Africa and the African Diaspora; and updates on cultural or political matters.

We are a forum for critical scholarly engagement of social and historical issues of relevance to the people of the world, particularly from the perspective of Africa and its Diasporas. In addition to Dr. Rodney’s profound engagement with and participation in social movements throughout his life, he also maintained an equally active scholarly production in academic journals where he routinely contested intellectual positions far ahead of his time, pushing forward the boundaries of knowledge. What better way to promote his legacy than to host this new space for critical and radical scholarship focusing on urgent social justice issues, engaging in the decolonization and liberation of knowledge?