Decolonizing Bodies explores processes of racialization through decolonial and radical relational lenses. It weaves together theory and the author’s personal stories to examine how human bodies and whole nations are racialized by late capitalism’s colonial legacies. It begins by introducing Radical Relational Individuality (RRI), a relational perspective on embodied humans and what the author calls a “decolonial golem.” She then discusses mixed-race myths in Mexico and Canada that reveal the persistence of systemic racism as global white ignorance and structural gaslighting. The book engages with the trauma of racism embedded in human bodies, how institutions perpetuate white supremacy, and the need for racial healing for everybody. Decolonizing Bodies includes an interview with educator and leadership coach Tovi C. Scruggs on her transformational teachings and concludes by discussing decolonial cosmopolitan localism based on pluriversality, a shared world, shared humanity, and an expansive form of radical relational freedom that centers an ethic of love and our deep interconnections and dependencies on everybody and everything.
Dr. Mónica J. Sánchez-Flores is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Environment, Culture and Society (ECS) in Thompson Rivers University (TRU). Mónica is Co-Leader with Christopher Powell of the International School of Radical Relationism (ISRR) (https://isrr.trubox.ca/) and the Relational Sociology research cluster of the Canadian Sociological Association. Her research focuses on the social construction of the processes of racialization, radical relational social theory, decolonial theory, political theory, multiculturalism and settlement, mindfulness, equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) training (see https://droptheguilt.trubox.ca/), globalization and cosmopolitanism. She has published a number of book chapters and articles on this and is the author of the books Political Philosophy for the Global Age (2005) and Cosmopolitan Liberalism: Expanding the Boundaries of the Individual (2010), and with Rebeccah Nelems co-author of the forthcoming article: “The Case for a Radically Relational (Non-Anthropocentric) Democracy” in the journal Democratic Theory (published by Cambridge University Press). Her recent book Decolonizing Bodies; a Radical Relational Approach to Racial Healing and Worlding Shared Humanity was published in January 2026.
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