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"Missing Chapters" - Book Recommendations

Naemi Valdivia Rojas June 2026

“Missing Chapters” and the broader project are dedicated to perspectives, bodies of knowledge, and narratives that are frequently marginalized, overlooked, or rendered invisible within dominant discourses. At the center are voices, topics, and forms of knowledge production that receive limited attention due to historically entrenched power relations and structural forms of exclusion.

As a recurring feature, we invite our guests to share a book recommendation as a way of pointing to intellectual and epistemic spaces that expand existing canons, challenge hegemonic perspectives, and open up new ways of engaging with social realities. The selection also includes works of fiction that do not primarily seek to explain, but rather to narrate, move, entertain, and inspire new imaginative horizons.

For ease of navigation, the list is organized by genre and arranged alphabetically. Each entry refers to the specific edition brought and recommended by the respective guest.

Non-Fiction

Colin, P. (mit Quiroz, L.). (2026). Pensées Décoloniales: Une Introduction Aux Théories Critiques d’Amérique Latine (1st ed). La Decouverte Editions.

hooks, bell. (1994). Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Routledge.

Segato, R. L., & McGlazer, R. (2022). The Critique of Coloniality: Eight Essays (English edition). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Varatharajah, S., & Hilal, M. (2024). Hierarchien der Solidarität. Wirklichkeit Books.

 

Fiction

Abulhawa, S. (2024). Mornings in Jenin. Bloomsbury.

Evaristo, B. (2020). Girl, Woman, Other. Penguin Books.

Hardcastle, D. (2025). Language of Limbs. Verve Books.

Lorde, A. (2019). Sister Outsider. Penguin Books.

 

Memoirs

Ogette, T. (2026). Trotzdem Zuhause (1. Auflage). Penguin Verlag.

Pāmā. (2014). Karukku (Mini Krishnan, Hrsg.; L. Holmström, Übers.; Second edition). Oxford University Press.

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Publication Date:

08 June 2026

Areas:

Empowerment, Practice

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