Colonialism

Informal Colonialism of Egyptology: The French Expedition to the Security State

Christian Langer • Jun 16 2017 • Articles

Western Egyptology offers Egyptian elites a legitimising ideological narrative of paternalist rule, thus the decolonisation of Egyptology is an imminently political act.

Interview – Meera Sabaratnam

E-International Relations • Mar 9 2017 • Features

Professor Sabaratnam explains her pessimism about IR, analyses the decolonisation of the university, and talks the current state of global politics.

Interview – Walter Mignolo/Part 2: Key Concepts

E-International Relations • Jan 21 2017 • Features

Prof. Mignolo explains the difference between decolonization and decoloniality, the similarity of modernity and coloniality, and describes humanity’s planetary dimension.

Interview – Walter Mignolo/Part 1: Activism and Trajectory

E-International Relations • Jan 17 2017 • Features

In the first of a two part interview Walter Mignolo discusses activism, the concept of coloniality, theory as practice and how aesthetics fit into decolonialism.

Review – The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present

Ricardo Padrón • Dec 22 2016 • Features

One of the world’s leading historians of the early modern European imperial imagination brings together the best of his life’s work on the intellectual history of empire.

Review – Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways

Iqbal Akhtar • Jul 31 2016 • Features

With philosophically rigourous analysis, Roy goes beyond the well-trod tropes of ‘radical Islam’ and pushes us to think outside of a ‘clash of civilizations’ paradigm.

Review – The Global Transformation of Time, 1870-1950

Kevin Birth • Apr 10 2016 • Features

An extremely valuable addition to literature on the history of time standardization and globalization which challenges dominant narratives of inevitable progress.

Review – Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism

Joanna Warson • Mar 7 2016 • Features

Although a bit light on analysis, Hansen and Jonsson succeed in showing perceptively how European integration and colonialism in Africa are related.

Posthuman Security: Reflections from an Open-ended Conversation

Audra Mitchell • Jan 25 2016 • Articles

The discussion of ‘posthuman security’ places both of its key terms in constant question, and stubbornly refuses closure into any particular vision of either.

Neo-Orientalism: Indonesia’s Colonialism and Papua

Nathan Down • Dec 17 2015 • Articles

Lessons learnt from Dutch colonialism have resulted in Indonesia’s mimicking and replicating its own code of imperialism, resulting in Papua’s accession into Indonesia.

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