1 Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place: Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume 1 (Routledge Press, April 2025) edited by Laura Doyle, Simon Gikandi and Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji Dissolving Master Narratives: Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume 2 (Routledge Press, April 2025) edited by Laura Doyle, Simon Gikandi and Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy: Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume 3 (Routledge Press, April 2025) edited by Laura Doyle, Simon Gikandi and Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji Decolonial Reconstellations Volume One: Dynamics of Deep Place and Deep Time Introduction Laura Doyle, Simon Gikandi, Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji Abstract This Introduction to Volume One of lays out the aims, methods, and spirit of the three-volume project of Decolonial Reconstellations, followed by an overview of the chapters in this volume. The editors define the project’s key concepts, particularly the frameworks of deep time and deep place; and they describe the collaborative practices and long-historical, interdisciplinary, intersectional methods that shape the chapters’ contributions to decolonial thought. The Introduction emphasizes that, by de-linking from eurocentric concepts and from temporalities of modern and pre-modern, while also eschewing colonially imposed divisions among peoples and regions, these chapters open new horizons for decolonial understanding and analysis. As the editors conclude, the combined contributions of differently positioned scholars from Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, and from southern eastern, northern, and western hemispheres, allow the chapters to: broaden the double decolonial project of critique and re- envisioning; deepen feminist-intersectional analyses of world history; and build solidarities across positionalities, within and beyond the academy. I. Gathering This three-volume collection, Decolonial Reconstellations, has emerged from ten years of collaborative listening and thinking among the scholars of the World Studies Interdisciplinary Project, an international collective centered at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (AboutWSIP). 1 We formed our collective both to challenge the embedded eurocentric, androcentric narratives that have enabled material and epistemological violence around the world and to make visible the legacies of care and creative world-making that have sustained human communities over generations. Our collaborations have led us to center the long-historical research and the deep-time and deep-place thinking that we believe is essential for this effort. In developing this project, we hope to contribute new dimensions of theory and practice to anti-