Anti-Colonial Global Scholarship

Sujata Patel is a retired Professor of Sociology at the University of Hyderabad in India and a Visiting Fellow at the Freiburg  Institute of Advanced Studies, Germany.Maureen A. Eger is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Umeå University in Sweden and a 2024-25 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in the United States.

• 1. Anti-Colonial Global Scholarship: An Introduction - Sujata Patel and Maureen A. Eger2. Anti-Colonial Theory as a Peripheral Gaze - Sujata Patel3. The Meanings of Anti-Colonial Social Thought and Theory - Syed Farid Alatas 4. The Promise of Anticolonial Social Theory - Julian Go5. Anticolonial Scholarship and the Politics of Location: Can Social Theory Be Truly Democratic and Truly Global? - Satish Deshpande6. Decolonial Dialectics in an Inter-Imperial World - Laura Doyle7. Anti-Colonial Planetary Struggle: History, Humans, and Us - Neferti X. M. Tadiar8. Theorizing Hong Kong: From Colonial Collaboration to Inter-Imperial Zone - Hon-Fai Chen9. Humanising Legacies of Caribbean Slavery and Colonialism in the Contemporary UK - Ann Phoenix10. The Horrors of Settler Colonialism: Remote Sites of Refugee Detention in Australia’s Carceral Archipelago - Claudia Tazreiter11. Sociology Besides Modernity? Ontoformative Gestures and Anti-Colonial Theories - Marcelo C. Rosa

‘This anthology is a valuable contribution to ongoing debates on empire, colonialism and decolonisation, highlighting the importance of anticolonialism within these discussions. It engages a range of generative topics and sites, offering a much-needed set of informed perspectives to social theory.’ Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge