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What is the ‘black’ in the ‘Black Mediterranean’?

What is the ‘black’ in the ‘Black Mediterranean’?

Bodies cast into the sea, left to die. This time, not by unscrupulous sea captains but by European legislation. Moving back and forward between the slave trade of yesterday’s Atlantic and those expelled and cast overboard in today’s global order certainly encourages us to interrupt and crease our

Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Decolonial Contradictions

Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Decolonial Contradictions

Context[1] A book which I edited and which has been published recently Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Social, Cultural, Political and Economic Imaginaries,[2] whilst not primarily oriented to the field of Postcolonial studies, certainly addresses a number of important questions regarding socialist Yugoslavia's enrolment in

Algerians’ Anti-French Attitude: A Postcolonial Reaction?

Algerians’ Anti-French Attitude: A Postcolonial Reaction?

Last month, Algeria hosted the 19th edition of the Mediterranean Games in the city of Oran. One particular incident that marked this event was when Algerian fans in the stadium— mostly young people—who were watching a football match during which Algeria was playing against France, lacked respect for the

HONG KONG: THE DECOLONIZATION THAT NEVER HAPPENED

HONG KONG: THE DECOLONIZATION THAT NEVER HAPPENED

In this brief article, we attempt to demonstrate how a historic compromise between British colonial power and an affluent local Chinese social class created fertile ground for the emergence of another “Chineseness”, different to and separate from the Chineseness of mainland China, or that of the Nationalists who fled to

“Islamo-Leftism” – Hobby Horse of the Ideologues of French Universalism

“Islamo-Leftism” – Hobby Horse of the Ideologues of French Universalism

The recent and intense attacks on what has been labelled Islamo-leftism, Islamo-gauchisme in the original, is the French iteration of a more global attack on “woke leftism”, or specifically critical race theory, gender studies and postcolonialism, summarized by France’s President Macron as the threat of “certain social science theories

Open letter to two young indigenous Ecuadorians

Open letter to two young indigenous Ecuadorians

My dear young friends, I appreciate the time you have spent conversing with me over these past few weeks, discussing the election process now underway in your country. As I told you then, I was truly perplexed by the international controversy among the various party families on the left regarding

Migration, Technologies & Postcolonial Genealogies

Migration, Technologies & Postcolonial Genealogies

Seminar series at the Centre Postcolonial Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London (Spring 2021) This seminar series centres on migration and bordering technologies, drawing attention to the postcolonial genealogies of the current governmentality assemblages. It aims at fostering a debate about the mutual entanglements between the racialisation of “migrants” and the