Joe Grim Feinberg on Rethinking Colonialism and Imperialism – 12 January 2025

00:00:00 Introduction and background information
00:03:40 Joe introduces himself and his work
00:05:35 Nationalism and internationalism
00:06:44 Imperialism and colonialism
00:08:42 Recapitulation of the main points of Joe’s article
00:21:44 Settler colonialism and determinants of colonial/imperial relationships
00:28:20 Historical change in colonialism and imperialism
00:42:00 The relationship of capitalism to coloniality and imperiality
00:45:26 The rise of the nation-state and the decline of empires
00:49:05 Equality, the idea of the nation, universalism, assimilation
00:56:37 The state as partial mediator between social forces
01:00:40 The state and nations, “races”, ethnicities etc
01:02:34 “Race” and coloniality
01:04:20 Decolonisation, nation state, imperialism
01:09:21 Coloniality, Imperiality, Zionism, Israel
01:11:11 Zionism as an Eastern European project
01:13:20 The complexity of colonial projects
01:14:44 The coloniality of Zionism
01:15:30 The exmple of Jewish Labour
01:17:00 Relationship of Zionism to empire
01:21:03 Coloniality, imperiality and the Palestinian movement
01:22:25 Widening perspectives on state and federal “solutions”
01:31:30 Q&A
01:32:10 Early Zionism and the nation state; settler colonialism
01:47:47 Migration, settlement, colonisation
01:50:45 Gender, “race”, coloniality, imperiality and the law
01:53:45 Limits of anticolonialism

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