Ali A. Abdi is professor of social development education at the University of British Columbia. He is the co-author (with Ratna Ghosh) of Education and the Politics of Difference (Canadian Scholars' Press, 2013) and editor of Decolonizing Philosophies of Education (Sense Publishers, 2011).

Timely both in its topical relevance and time-space themed discursive interventions, analysis and recommendations, this edited volume examines and prospectively expands, with the critical as is performative construct, upon contemporary intersections of education, knowledge and social wellbeing.