Posts tagged: imperialism

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  The Balfour Declaration and its Consequences

  Today marks the 100-year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. Here we present an essay by Avi Shlaim that examines the declaration and its historiography.

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  Who Lit This Fire? Approaching the History of the Fossil Economy

  Outside of hard climate science, history should be the preeminent field for the study of global warming.

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  Puerto Rico: Belonging to, But Not Part of

  The Trump administration's delay in sending real aid to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria is a distasteful display of colonialist racism. But it's par for the course: our citizenship has always been second-class.

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  Two Poems by Heriberto Yépez

  "Yépez is at the forefront of a generation of writers who are questioning notions of fluidity and synthesis, a generation that has seen those same categories veil the advent of global neoliberalism," Edgar Garcia has written.

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  W.E.B. Du Bois and Black Sovereignty

  An inquiry into Du Bois' articulation with Liberia, colonialism and its concomitant formations of Black middle classes, the history of the "Americo-Liberian" elite, and the advent of the United States as a colonial power.

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  Coming to Terms: The Third World and the Dialectic of Imperialism

  "How are we to conceptualise what we [black peoples] were, what we are, what we are becoming?"

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  Racial Capitalocene

  Is the Anthropocene racial?

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  Video: Vivek Chibber — Eurocentrism, the Academy, and Social Emancipation

  Video of Vivek Chibber's talk at University of Cape Town on "the relations between the critique of Eurocentrism and the aspiration for social emancipation — and the place of the academy." 

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  On the Obsolescence of the Bourgeois Novel in the Anthropocene

  How can cultural workers respond to climate change? Can the cultural work of responding to climate change be a global conversation? In his latest addition to his General Intellects collection of critical appreciations, McKenzie Wark writes about the novelist Amitav Ghosh's influential lectures on "the great derangement."

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  Ibn Khaldun and The Myth of "Arab Invasion"

  In this excerpt from Ibn Khaldun: The Birth of History and the Past of the Third World, Yves Lacoste shows how Ibn Khaldun's work refutes the myth of the "Arab invasions [of the Maghreb] of the eleventh century," despite the uses to which it has been put by the authors of the myth.

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  The Imperial Archive and Form: Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker, and J.G. Ballard in the British Empire (Parts I and II)

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  The Imperial Archive and Form: Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker, and J.G. Ballard in the British Empire (Part III)