Week 3: The Coloniality of Power

This week’s focus is the Coloniality of Power. I begin by establishing what is at stake using Russia’s current war on Ukraine as an…

Decolonial Thought: A lecture for the Institute for Culture and Society Key Thinkers & Concepts series

I was kindly invited by the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University to give a talk on postcolonial and decolonial thought for…
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Open Letter: the threat of academic authoritarianism – international solidarity with antiracist academics in France

In response to attacks on academic freedom against French educators working on race and decolonial issues, I drafted an open letter along with my…

Decolonising epistemologies

The second post in the Race Critical and Decolonial Sociology blog series is a round-up of some of the central debates in postcolonial and…

Revisiting Fanon: Lessons for Critical Race & Decolonial Struggles – presentation

Tonight Free University of Western Sydney is hosting a screening of Concerning Violence, the Goran Olsson film which uses archival footage of anticolonial struggles…

The Case for Open Borders

This article was originally published in Overland on August 5, 2013. Underlying Bernard Keane’s article – ‘“Let them all come” is “stop the boats”…
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