Anticolonialism and social thought /

"While anticolonialism has been largely ignored in mainstream Euro-American social thought, this book shows that anticolonial thinkers, activists and movements around the world produce novel, innovative and vital social thought. By challenging imperialism and colonialism, anticolonial struggles...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Al-Hardan, Anaheed (Editor), Go, Julian, 1970- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025
Series:International studies (Cambridge University Press)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Anticolonial history and social theory / Anaheed Al-Hardan and Julian Go
  • Part I: Activists, intellectuals, movements
  • Genealogies of anticolonialism: Aimé Césaire on alienation and under-development / Arwa Awan
  • Anticolonialism and national liberation: an intellectual history of Zweledinga Pallo Jordan / Ayesha Omar
  • An anticolonial critique of sovereignty: Radhabinod Pal on war and international order / Ibrahim Khan
  • Decolonization as transformation: Malek Bennabi's philosophy of liberation / Mahmoud Al-Zayed
  • Revolutionary women's praxis to bury colonialism, 1945-1949 / Elisabeth Armstrong
  • Part II: Schools of thought
  • Palestinian anticolonial national liberation in the present / Anaheed Al-Hardan
  • Genealogies of auto-centered development: the afterlives of China in Arab developmental thought / Max Ajl
  • Anticolonial sociology in Latin America, 1950-1970 / João Marcelo E. Maia
  • Part III: Dissident sociologists
  • Firing back imperialism from the Peripheries: the anticolonial sociology of Abdelmalek Sayad / Amín Pérez
  • A. R. Desai's Marxist critique of nationalism and of the Indian nation-state: towards a reframing of sociology as social science / Sujata Patel
  • The ecological social theory of Radhakamal Mukerjee / Joshua Silver
  • Part IV: On method
  • Anticolonial action across the Black Atlantic: Black feminist approaches to insurrection at sea / Pyar J. Seth and Alexandre I.R. White