00:00:00 Intro to the series 00:02:30 Intro to the webinar 00:03:31 Anna Hájková‘s research and public interventions 00:10:23 Blind spots 00:14:10 Epistemic frames 00:18:13 The
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Why has Eastern Europe been absent from studies of decolonial history? Historians Oksana Dudko and Anna Hájková discuss.
00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:58 Recap of the main themes of Jacob’s article Violence and the Left 00:23:15 Q&A intro 00:24:03 How did settler colonialism become an
In this episode of Yurt Jurt, Aidai Aidarova speaks with Terrell J. Starr, journalist, podcaster, and political commentator. Aidai and Terrell discuss how conversations about colonialism
00:00:00 Introduction by Daniel 00:07:40 Byron on settler colonialism in the Pacific, Polynesian resistance and the building of the nation state in New Zealand 00:23:10
From ANF Melis Tantan says that Turkey’s energy strategy is based on colonialism and that energy has become a tool of domination for many states.
Today, Tehran, Pyongyang and Beijing support the Kremlin’s war effort while it poses as anti-imperialist — but Iran, China, and Korea were once the prey
I now know that Africa has been in search for a progressive hero since the passage of the great ones – Nkrumah, Lumumba, Nasser, Nyerere,
This article first appeared in History Workshop Journal.
By “Atlantic bias” I mean a set of assumptions about “race”, racism, colonialism and imperialism prevalent on the left globally but rooted in the history
Settler colonialism is very much alive in the state of Israel today. Open a newspaper anywhere in the world and you are likely to see
00:00:00 Background information00:03:37 Start of Ben’s talk, introduction00:04:20 Theoretical background00:06:14 Thematic overview00:07:00 Real and imagined Jews in the history of European colonialism00:12:45 Activist settler colonialism
In our view, Sina Arnold and Juliane Karakayali make a compelling argument that research on antisemitism and racism need to be interconnected. We agree with
00:00:00 Introduction and background information00:03:40 Joe introduces himself and his work00:05:35 Nationalism and internationalism00:06:44 Imperialism and colonialism00:08:42 Recapitulation of the main points of Joe’s article00:21:44
Shannon Ward: Your book deals centrally with the biopolitics of language oppression, charting how techniques of governance institutionalize the elimination of Manegacha. In Chapter 6,
00:02:00 How did you get interested in the subject of “settler colonialism”? 00:05:50 Do you have an “Australian perspective”? 00:08:40 How would you summarise the
This year marks 30 years since China launched its ambitious Tibet-Aid Project (援藏计划), a vast and ongoing party-state effort to reshape the region. Unveiled at
From Yurt Jurt: In this first episode, we introduce ourselves and the mission behind the Yurt Jurt. We’re here to explore why the term “post-Soviet”
From K. The Magazine “What did y’all think decolonization meant?,” reads the hyper-viral tweet that circulated after October 7. As antisemitic violence erupted in Canada,
Sidney Lu’s The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961 (Cambridge 2019) places the concept of “Malthusian expansionism” at the center of Japanese settler
At a conference in Prague this past spring (May 2023), a prominent theorist of colonialism and coloniality spoke to us via video chat from his
The current Israel–Hamas war is one horrific outcome of a century-long Zionist settler colonial project, which continues to violently shape the political geography of Israel/Palestine.
This essay makes two arguments. First, it argues that the analytical frame of settler colonialism is very productive in order to understand, describe, and at
From Boston Review The picture above of two teenage Zionists was taken in 1906 in Kamenetz-Podolsk, Ukraine, in what was then the Russian empire. On
Just another land-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this case you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist
From Aeon, by Lachlan McNamee In 1931, Japan invaded northeast China and established a client state called Manchukuo (Manchuria). To secure control over Manchuria, over
Lachlan McNamee’s short book on settler colonialism, Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop, is nothing short of excellent. In just 163
Universities have no shortage of naked emperors enrobed in the finest of phantasmal silks and, here, Walter Mignolo endeavours to show off the latest in
On 24 February, the Russian army invaded Ukraine as part of a large-scale military operation aimed at rapidly decapitating Ukrainian power and subjugating the country.
Volodymyr Ishchenko has carved out a unique niche as one of the western Left’s go-to voices on all things Ukrainian. His list of articles and
Germany has a long history of colonialism and racism in Eastern Europe. To this day, people who are perceived as “Eastern” face discrimination and exclusion.
Since 2017, the Chinese authorities have detained hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in ‘reeducation camps’ in China’s northwestern Xinjiang autonomous
Axel T. Paul is Professor of Sociology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Matthias Leanza is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at
Robert Hoyland is Professor of Late Antique and Early Islamic Middle Eastern History at New York University, NY, USA. This article first appeared in Comparativ
James A. Reilly is Professor Emeritus of modern Middle East history at the University of Toronto (Canada). This article first appeared in Comparativ Vol. 30
Michael Khodarkovsky is Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago (USA). He specializes in the history of Russia’s imperial expansion into the Eurasian borderlands. This
Matthew W. Mosca is Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington (USA). His teaching and research interests center on Chinese and Inner Asian
Looking for Empires: Japanese Colonialism and the Comparative Gaze, by Kate McDonald – 17 April 2021
Kate McDonald is Associate Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara (USA). Her research explores the social, cultural, and technological history of mobility in
Soon after I arrived in Ürümchi in 2014 I met a young Uyghur man named Alim. He grew up in a small town near the
From Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 9: Iss. 2: 9-25.
Sergey Nikolsky, a Russian philosopher of culture, says that perhaps the most important idea for Russians “from the fall of Byzantium until today is the