Anti-Colonial Global Scholarship

‘This is an impressive survey of an emerging field of knowledge, as social science grapples with empire and imperialism, past and present. Invasions, resistances, racisms and forms of knowledge are examined in chapters that range from broad proposals for integrating this new field to vivid accounts of contemporary power, violence and oppression.’ Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney

‘What is the place of the anti-colonial in the wide array of both classic and more recent approaches dealing with colonial legacies? Rather than providing one answer, this rich and erudite volume offers a unique theoretical and methodological compass. It points its readers towards more than one possible path through the maze of neocolonial, post- and decolonial, inter- and postimperial approaches while grounding the search in the experiences and perspectives of the Global South.’ Manuela Boatcă, University of Freiburg

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.