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, […]
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 […]
Modernity and eurocentrism
By Yasmin Carpenter The concepts of modernity and Eurocentrism lie at the core of the decolonial critique of Western thought. Far from being neutral or universal categories, they describe a historical project that has defined what counts as reason, progress, and humanity from a specifically European standpoint. The decolonial perspective argues that modernity’s celebrated ideals—rationality, […]
