Review – Authoritarian Africa: Repression, resistance, and the power of ideas
The book explores why authoritarian regimes have persisted in Africa and investigates the extent to which European colonialists can be blamed for Africa’s problems.
Trade, Industrialisation, and British Colonial Rule in India
British industrial productivity led to a century-long process of deindustrialisation. India was outcompeted by the industrial revolution in Britain
Review – Reading the Postwar Future: Textual Turning Points from 1944
This edited volume is a project of intellectual history, exploring how key texts from 1944 reflected on and helped shape a different world order.
Failing in the Reflexive and Collaborative Turns: Empire, Colonialism, Gender and the Impossibilities of North-South Collaborations
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?
Colonial Politics of Digital Security Interfaces
When juxtaposing quantified data, digital territories, data visualization and security they end up reifying and perpetuating colonial practices and imaginaries.
The United Nations and Self-Determination in the Case of East Timor
In the case of East Timor, one can argue that the UN was definitely not a friend to the people of East Timor even without the right to self-determination in the equation.
Review – Partitions
Dubnov and Robinson explore the use of partitions by the British Empire, how they were manipulated transnationally to serve British interests, and their impacts today.
Review – The Another Europe Podcast
This ongoing podcast from the Another Europe Is Possible campaign organisation debates controversial topics such as Brexit and freedom of movement in an inclusive style.
Interview – Amy Niang
Amy Niang considers how Africa features in the history of the international, the postcolonial state and sovereignty, and the conflict in the Central African Republic.
The Myth of Multipolarity and Overexpansion of Rising Powers: The Case of Brazil
Brazil over-expanded considerably in the first decades of the 21st century in a process that was fuelled by domestic interest groups as well as a myth of multipolarity.
