Do Contemporary Practices of Schooling Reinforce Colonial Relations of Power?
Contemporary practices of schooling reflect ethnocentrism as universal truth, reinforcing power relations that resulted from colonial rule by maintaining binaries.
Interview – Julian Go
Prof. Go discusses social theory, the need for a ‘third wave’ of postcolonial thought, the dangers of American exceptionalism and identifies the patterns of empire.
Palestine in Britain: Sovereignty and Diplomacy After Balfour
Palestinians should move to express freedom and dignity through an extended notion of sovereignty that will not be mediated by statist diplomatic practices.
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.
Border Thinking and the Experiential Epistemologies of International Relations
Borders cannot be understood separate from the bodies they affect and form. The geopolitics of knowledge cannot be separated from the experience of borders.
Interview – Walter D. Mignolo
Professor Walter D. Mignolo discusses the geo- and body-political dimensions of knowledge as the energy fuelling border thinking and decoloniality.
Review – Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory
Go’s book is an important contribution to the greater project of deconstructing social theory and sociology to subsequently resurrect them for the 21st century.
Interview – Meera Sabaratnam
Professor Sabaratnam explains her pessimism about IR, analyses the decolonisation of the university, and talks the current state of global politics.
Review – Connected Sociologies
As sociology’s imagined European centre comes apart, Bhambra’s book will remain a vital text for those wishing to understand where we have been and where we are going to.
Online Reading List – Postcolonialism
A collection of resources introducing, and exploring, postcolonial approaches to International Relations.
