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