Author profile: Desirée Poets

Desirée Poets is Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Theory at Virginia Tech’s Department of Political Science as well as Core Faculty member of the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) Ph.D. program.

Failing in the Reflexive and Collaborative Turns: Empire, Colonialism, Gender and the Impossibilities of North-South Collaborations

Desirée Poets • Apr 9 2020 • Articles

As Postcolonial Theory becomes accepted in the mainstream, how do we control the means through which academia aims to re-invent its as only seemingly more benign?