Introduction Special Issue: Tectonic Intimacies of Transformation Knowledges of Emancipation and Narratives of Resistance and the Amplification of Global Majority Voices

Tectonic intimacies address the relationship between violence, resistance, and hope in academia with a specific focus on Global Majority scholars. It analyses colonial power dynamics in knowledge production and the effect of such dynamics on the emotions of people and communities using the concept of tectonic shifts. The contributions highlight how intimate acts of survival, cultural assertion, and collective care serve as forms of resistance, creating ruptures within colonial epistemologies and facilitating the emergence of postcolonial knowledges. These acts, which are regarded as the strategies of personal survival, present new theoretical paradigms that problematize the dominant epistemologies. Postcolonial intimacies emerge in these practices, as scholars engage in acts of love, solidarity, and healing that challenge the violence of colonialism. Specifically, the problem raises the question of the importance of creativity, such as narrative, visual, and performative, as well as joy, as agents of change. In these various ways of involvement, the work contributes to decolonial practice and foregrounds healing, the people’s power, and liberation in transforming knowledge creation processes in academic and societal contexts.