Last panel of #ConferenceHowtoDecolonizePoliticalHistory, on "Decolonization as a process". With Javed Iqbal Wani, Benson Kanyingi, Cyprian Nanji, Parand Danesh, Tural Abdullazada, and Henk de Smaele as chair.
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Decolonizing political history also means preserving Palestinian archives and histories against erasure, and creating new oral history archives. Timely keynote lecture by Jihane Sfeir (ULB). #ConferenceHowtoDecolonizePoliticalHistory
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Concentrating on transimperial interpreters of Leopold II in Late Qing-China challenges Eurocentric and state-centered approaches of the history of colonialism, according to Eline Ceulemans.
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Postcolonial approaches can contribute to a better understanding of Medieval and Early Modern societies and state-building - and they can help scholars to decenter their own positionality, argues Nissaf Sghaïer. #ConferenceHowtoDecolonizePoliticalHistory
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Much has been written about the Algerian War of Independence, much less about its Cameroonian counterpart, says Karine Ramondy. Thanks to the report she and her team have recently published, this state of affair is changing. #ConferenceHowtoDecolonizePoliticalHistory @associationpolhist.bsky.social
