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Felix MantzFelix Mantz teaches and researches in the Political Science Department at UHM. Mantz completed his graduate studies at King’s College London and Queen Mary University of London. His research focuses on the ways in which political ecologies are entangled with colonial systems of power. Drawing on multiple critical theories, especially anti/decolonial, anarchist, and Indigenous thought, I am particularly interested in questions of land, autonomy, food, and extractivism. Following Zapatismo, through my teaching and research I seek to recover, (re)build, and defend a world in which many worlds fit. Most of my work has a regional focus on East Africa and Mesoamerica.
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Courses
- POLS 110: Introduction to Political Science
- POLS 380: Environmental Law and Politics
- POLS 305: Global Politics/ Comparative
Research
- Mantz, Felix (2024) “Abolition as a Global Project: Engaging Struggles against Corporate
Seeds in Tanzania,” Globalizations. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2024.2403242 - Samaniego, Debbie and Felix Mantz (2023) “Mesoamérica Resiste: Staging the Battle over
Mesoamerica – Capitalist Fantasies vs. Grassroots Liberation”, in Clea Bourne, Paul
Gilbert, Max Haiven, and Johnna Montgomerie (Eds.) The Entangled Legacies of
Empire: Race, Finance and Inequality (Manchester: Manchester University Press).
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526163455.00042 - Mantz, Felix (2021) “Bendix and Ndlovu-Gatsheni in dialogue: conceptualising the
(de)colonial, knowledge and development,” Review of African Political Economy
48(169): 473-484. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2021.1934323 - Figueroa-Helland, Leonardo, Abigail Perez Aguilera and Felix Mantz (2021) “Decolonize,
Reindigenize: Planetary Crisis, Biocultural Diversity, Indigenous Resurgence and
Land Rematriation” in Cathy Wagner and Luis I. Prádanos (Eds.) Contesting
Extinctions: Decolonial and Regenerative Futures (Minneapolis: Lexington Books):
pp. 23-62. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793652829/Contesting-Extinctions-
Decolonial-and-Regenerative-Futures - Mantz, Felix (2021) “‘Many have spoken for us, now we speak for ourselves’ Decolonizing
Natures through Ecotestimonies in Olosho,” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in
Literature and Environment 28(4): 1408-1432. https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaa148 - Mantz, Felix (2019) “Decolonizing the IPE syllabus: Eurocentrism and the coloniality of
knowledge in International Political Economy,” Review of International Political
Economy 26(6): 1361-1378. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2019.1647870 - Mantz, Felix (2019) “The Global Mobile Labour Force in the Modern/Colonial World-System:
Analyzing Migrant Integration in Germany,” Journal of International Relations and
Development 24(1): 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-019-00181-9
Articles and book chapters
- Mantz, Felix, Mariko Frame and Sam Grant (Eds.) (2025) Grassroots Responses to
Extractivism: Case Studies from around the World (Bloomsbury Publishing). https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/grassroots-responses-to-extractivism-9781350331600/ - Mantz, Felix (2024) “Land Grabbing through Unlivability: Necroscapes and Slow Violence in the Expansion of Conservation Regimes in Tanzania,” LDIP Working Paper #2024-032. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XoDRZDxM06j1j0hRHGIqd5Xpwkj-lV6l/view
- Mantz, Felix (2023) “ChatGPT and IR: Preliminary Reflections from within ‘Dark Academia,’” E-International Relations. https://www.e-ir.info/2023/02/10/opinion-deep-structures-and-ir-preliminary-reflections-from-within-dark-academia/
- Mantz, Felix (2021) “Nyerere, Julius K.,” Global Social Theory. https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/nyerere-julius-k/
- Samaniego, Debbie and Felix Mantz (2020) “The Pandemic’s Undeserving and Disposable: Exposing Entangled Systems of Power in Cache Valley (USA),” Discover Society. https://archive.discoversociety.org/2020/06/18/the-pandemics-undeserving-and-disposable-exposing-entangled-systems-of-power-in-cache-valley-usa/
Community Involvement
Since 2021, Mantz has been involved with the Free University of Brighton (UK), a moneyless,
autonomous learning space that seeks to make higher education free and accessible to
everyone.
Since 2021, Mantz has been involved with the Free University of Brighton (UK), a moneyless,
autonomous learning space that seeks to make higher education free and accessible to
everyone.
