Earth Day Sale - 35% off all Environmental Studies titles Decolonizing Ourselves: Reflections from a Personal Journey | BERGHAHN BOOKS
Join our Email List Berghahn Books Logo

berghahn New York · Oxford
Browse Books
Decolonizing Ourselves: Reflections from a Personal Journey

View Table of Contents




See Related
Anthropology Journals

Email Newsletters

Sign up for our email newsletters to get customized updates on new Berghahn publications.

Click here to select your preferences

Decolonizing Ourselves

Reflections from a Personal Journey

Carol J. Pierce Colfer

372 pages, 41 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80758-091-9 $150.00/£115.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (November 2026)

eISBN 978-1-80758-092-6 eBook Not Yet Published


View CartYour country: - edit Recommend to your LibraryAvailable in GOBI®

Reviews

“This is a most important and much-needed contribution to the literature on applied anthropology. Its most valuable quality is braiding first-hand experience of an immense number of international locations, ethnic groups, social classes, and political circumstances with a chronological account of her own growth as a person and as an anthropologist.” • Megan Biesele, Director Emerita, Kalahari Peoples Fund.

“This book is a nuanced example of ethnography and how it can be practiced. It makes a powerful argument for socially committed social science.” • Robert Fisher, University of Sydney

Description

Beginning in 1955, when she moved at the age of nine to Ankara, Türkiye, Colfer traces a life shaped by encounters with a very different culture and the inequities it revealed. Combining autoethnography with an analysis of modern-day colonialism, she charts her changing understandings of the world, many of which were shared more broadly. The narrative highlights inequities at multiple scales and reflects on both the successes and shortcomings of her own efforts to address them. In doing so, it invites readers to examine their own lives in light of such injustices and to consider how to “make good trouble.”

Carol J. Pierce Colfer is semi-retired from the Center for International Forestry Research in Bogor, Indonesia, where she worked from 1994 until 2009 as Principal Researcher and Program Leader. In 2009, she chose a loose affiliation as a Senior Associate and moved to Ithaca, New York. In 2024, she received the prestigious Scientific Achievement Award from the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations in Sweden. Between 2009 and 2024, she was also affiliated with Cornell University. She has authored and co-edited numerous books, her most recent being two collections are Adaptive Collaborative Management in Forest Landscapes (Taylor & Francis 2022) and Responding to Environmental Issues through Adaptive Collaborative Management (Taylor & Francis 2023).

Subject: Applied AnthropologySustainable Development Goals


Contents

Back to Top



Library Recommendation Form

Dear Librarian,

I would like to recommend Decolonizing Ourselves Reflections from a Personal Journey for the library. Please include it in your next purchasing review with my strong recommendation. The RRP is: $150.00

I recommend this title for the following reasons:

BENEFIT FOR THE LIBRARY: This book will be a valuable addition to the library's collection.

REFERENCE: I will refer to this book for my research/teaching work.

STUDENT REFERRAL: I will regularly refer my students to the book to assist their studies.

OWN AFFILIATION: I am an editor/contributor to this book or another book in the Series (where applicable) and/or on the Editorial Board of the Series, of which this volume is part.