Colonially Mediated Spaces and Beings: From Oppression to Liberation

By: Ibnelkaïd, Samira

Colonially Mediated Spaces and Beings addresses the intricate interplay between identity, mobility, and power, focusing on how these dynamics are mediated by omnicolonialism and reclaimed through translocal networks of resistance and belonging.

Ibnelka d first asserts that our lived experience is fundamentally relational, dialogical, and situated. Individuals exist at the intersection of movement and attachment - across spaces, temporalities, relationships - that give meaning and orientation to their lives.

However, as Ibnelka d demonstrates, this nexus is disrupted by the omnicolonial matrix, which operates materially and ontologically to inhibit empathy, weaponize emotions, and alienate intersubjectivity. Exploring the case of high-skilled racialized migrants in Finland - regularly ranked the "happiest country in the world" - the author analyzes how migration regimes in Fortress Europe enact racialized geographies and commodify life itself.

To explore these dynamics, Ibnelka d introduces Critical Phenomenology of Interaction - a novel framework for examining how digital-algorithmic and capitalist-imperialist structures shape our being-in-the-colonial-world. Ibnelka d shows how micro-coloniality is both (re)produced in everyday social interactions and resisted through collective emotional, sensory and epistemic intelligence.

Written from the perspective of an Indigenous Amazigh migrant woman and scholar, this work is a global call for liberation. Liberation from colonialism, imperialism, capitalism. Liberation of the minds, the borders, the peoples.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1666941123
• ISBN13: 9781666941128
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 408 Pages