Unequal relationships, racism and dispossession still survive and even become more acute supported by the so-called green transitions. The elites, corporations and nations that dominate our planet intend to confront the enormous environmental challenges we are facing in the 21st century through disastrous business-as-usual or more accurately colonial-as-usual solutions.
Even though extensive bodies of scholarship proclaim white supremacy, racial capitalism, and coloniality to be global structures, South-East Europe is one of the regions often invisibilized in such conversations.
Monday, 11 November, 11:00 am -12:30 pm (in-person only). Room GS5, Donald McIntyre Building,Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road. We've been invited to join the Transnational Anti-racism in Education Programme in welcoming Prof. Michael Burawoy (University of California, Berkeley) for the talk, Exiting Settler Colonialism: Palestine/Israel through a South African Lens. Following his talk, Prof. Burawoy... Continue Reading →
Please join us for the first Decolonise Sociology meeting of term on Friday 1 November, 2-3 pm, in the Sociology Seminar Room. We would like to invite all interested members of our community, undergraduates, postgraduates, postdocs, lecturers and researchers to join the Decolonise Sociology working group. It is an important space to create community and push... Continue Reading →
Rusha Latif's talk is based on her new book Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution. She will challenge the commonly held belief that the 2011 Egyptian revolution was spontaneous and leaderless, through a provocative new account of the revolutionaries—one that foregrounds their solidarity with Palestinians as a key catalyst behind their revolt.
Decolonise Sociology @ Cambridge 