Bringing imperialism back in: for an anthropology against empire in the twenty-first century
Stephen Campbell,
Geoffrey Rathgeb Aung
Abstract:What can a critical analysis of imperialist political economy offer the decolonial turn in the contemporary social sciences? How might revisiting “classic” anti-imperialist thought and politics from the global South push scholars and activists to envision a more revolutionary decolonization? And how, in our discipline’s history, have anthropologists variously opposed or been complicit with the workings of imperialist power? In this article, and in the special issue of Dialectical Anthropology that this article… Show more
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