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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

Remaking the Metropole

Remaking the Metropole

Remaking the Metropole Postcolonial scholarship has long held out the promise of helping us understand contemporary politics in both the metropole and the colony better. Fanon and Cesaire linked their concerns about colonialism’s racialization to the dehumanizing of not just the colonized but also the colonizer. Cesaire’s passionate

You can’t understand the world without learning about empire

You can’t understand the world without learning about empire

Observing the protests against racism in the streets of the US, UK, Australia and elsewhere feels like watching not only a mass movement, but also a classroom, crackling with intellectual energy. For the movement on the streets is not just protesting against specific acts and omissions, it is also making