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 […]
Eurocentrism and Coloniality of Knowledge in Contemporary Contexts
By Yasmin Carpenter Coloniality of knowledge is not a relic of the past — it is the invisible architecture that continues to shape how the world defines truth, reason, and intellectual value. While formal colonialism ended, the hierarchies of knowledge and ways of knowing it created persist in the institutions that regulate knowledge production today: […]
