Internal colonialism

By Gareth DaleGareth Dale (pronouns he/him) is a Reader in Political Economy at Brunel University. Internal colonialism’s principal referents are remarkably disparate: the colonisation of peripheral regions during the formation of nation states, the exploitation and oppression of indigenous populations in formally post-colonial states, and the persistence of colonial-era racial subjugation in a post-colonial context. […]

The USSR and Colonialism

By Gareth Dale Gareth Dale (pronouns he/him) is a Reader in Political Economy at Brunel University. The Soviet Union’s relationship to colonialism and imperialism was complex. Initially, its anti-imperialism was uncompromising, flowing from the revolutionary upsurge of 1917. Over subsequent decades, this turned to ambivalence or worse. In 1917, the insurrectionary forces pursued anti-colonialism at […]

Coloniality and Time

By Gareth Dale Gareth Dale (pronouns he/him) is a Reader in Political Economy at Brunel University. The temporal frameworks, or timescapes, through which humans comprehend and organise time, and through which we make sense of the cosmos, vary widely. Among gatherer-hunter peoples and in peasant cultures, timescapes are generally woven from nature’s cycles: sleeps, moons, […]

Doikayt and the Jewish Labour Bund

By Elia Ayoub Elia Ayoub is the Encyclopaedia Lead at the Decolonial Centre. He is a Lebanese-Palestinian researcher, writer, journalist and historian focusing on anti-authoritarianism, internationalism and alternative futurities. He hosts the podcast The Fire These Times and writes the Hauntologies newsletter. He’s been published in 972Mag, Shado Mag, Red Pepper, Al Jazeera, New Internationalist, […]

The 2019 Lebanon Uprising

By Elia Ayoub Elia Ayoub is the Encyclopaedia Lead at the Decolonial Centre. He is a Lebanese-Palestinian researcher, writer, journalist and historian focusing on anti-authoritarianism, internationalism and alternative futurities. He hosts the podcast The Fire These Times and writes the Hauntologies newsletter. He’s been published in 972Mag, Shado Mag, Red Pepper, Al Jazeera, New Internationalist, […]

Neoliberalism

By Portia Jennings Portia Jennings is currently studying a master’s in human rights at the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on migrants’ rights and the rights of precarious workers within neoliberal labour markets. She previously represented asylum seekers, victims of trafficking and modern slavery in legal claims against the UK Home Office. Neoliberalism emerged […]

Colonial Intellectual Workforces

By Raewyn Connell Raewyn Connell is an Australian feminist sociologist and Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney, best known for co-founding masculinity studies and developing the influential concept of hegemonic masculinity. Her work spans gender, class, education and global social theory, including the notable book Southern Theory. Connell has published extensively and is widely […]

Colonial Knowledge Institutions

By Raewyn Connell Raewyn Connell is an Australian feminist sociologist and Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney, best known for co-founding masculinity studies and developing the influential concept of hegemonic masculinity. Her work spans gender, class, education and global social theory, including the notable book Southern Theory. Connell has published extensively and is widely […]

Southern Theory

By Raewyn Connell Raewyn Connell is an Australian feminist sociologist and Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney, best known for co-founding masculinity studies and developing the influential concept of hegemonic masculinity. Her work spans gender, class, education and global social theory, including the notable book Southern Theory. Connell has published extensively and is widely […]

The global economy of knowledge

By Raewyn Connell Raewyn Connell is an Australian feminist sociologist and Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney, best known for co-founding masculinity studies and developing the influential concept of hegemonic masculinity. Her work spans gender, class, education and global social theory, including the notable book Southern Theory. Connell has published extensively and is widely […]