This introductory chapter sets out the epistemological and methodological foundations of the collective volume, which explores Sudan’s December Revolution (2018–2023) as part of a long and an open-ended march for a fairer Sudan. The revolution constitutes a complex and multi-layered process grounded in everyday practices and shaped by the historical experiences of resistance in Sudan, both before and throughout the thirty years of Islamist regime of Ingaz. Rooted in years of shared research and engagement with Sudanese colleagues and students, this volume develops three interrelated directions for rethinking transformation dynamics in the Global South. First, it revisits global protest movements beyond the narrow lens of the “Arab Springs”, challenging state-centred, event-driven, and geopolitically reductive analyses. Second, it places inequalities and injustices at the core of revolutionary mobilisations and imaginaries for the future. Third, it calls for the decolonisation of knowledge, by confronting both material and symbolic forms of domination and supporting co-produced knowledge with activists and citizens. Sudan offers a powerful and exemplary site for such a rethinking: more than a case study, it serves as a laboratory for developing grounded theory and critical perspectives on change from below. In a context where war has emerged as a violent counter-revolutionary force, recalling the aspirations, practices, and imaginaries of the revolution is both a scientific and political necessity.