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Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire - Max Haiven Palm oil is in an estimated 50% of supermarket products: the processed and prepackaged foods we eat, the soaps and detergents and cosmetics we use, the medic...

@maxhaiven.bsky.social outlines the role of palm oil in the Industrial Revolution, the concept of “commodity racism” and the limits of consumer activism.

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Political Ecology: Reflections from the Global South - Prof Mitul Baruah Political ecology as an area of academic enquiry is relatively new. The history of it in the Anglophone world can be traced back to the 1980s, pioneered by, ...

Mitul Baruah discusses nature and power, environmental disaster in India and the importance of the work of political ecologists outside academia.

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A Green New Deal? Harpreet Kaur Paul The connection between economic justice and climate action has been captured by narratives for a Green New Deal, particularly in the UK and US. In this sessi...

Harpreet Kaur Paul discusses the limits of locally oriented Green New Deals, the corporate capture of climate policies and the need for #ClimateReparations.

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Climate Change, Migration, Race: Dr Andrew Baldwin Climate change is often said to be a pending form of injustice because it stands to force millions of people from their homes. This idea is now so widely acc...

Andrew Baldwin builds on the work of #EdwardSaid and #DipeshChakrabarty to challenge the assumption that climate change is a problem of migration.

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Varieties of Empires and Colonialism - Professor Gurminder K Bhambra Empires and nation states are typically understood as two distinct types of political organization. There are states, it is claimed, that are empires and the...

Gurminder K. Bhambra reflects on “emigrationist colonialism”, extraction and incorporation and the relationship between empires and nation states.

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Ocean Legalities - Professor Renisa Mawani Law has conventionally been tied to land, territory, and nation states. What does its history look like from the sea, from above and below the waterline, and...

Renisa Mawani explores the writings of #HugoGrotius, the idea of the “free sea” and the relationship between law, trade and colonisation.

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The Case of the Ottoman Empire - Professor Fatma Müge Göçek, The Ottoman Empire (1299-1922) was the longest-lasting Muslim empire contiguously ruling at the height of its power over the three continents of (Eastern) Eu...

Fatma Müge Göçek looks at the Ottoman Empire, its structure of governance and how its history compares to Western European empires.

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The Cromwellian Land Settlement of Ireland - Professor David Brown The Cromwellian Land Settlement of Ireland, devised during the late 1650s, is usually seen as an extension of England’s Tudor and Stuart colonisations of the...

Dave Brown discusses #OliverCromwell, England's first imperial conquest and the reasons why the Irish are often excluded from discussions of colonialism.

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Food Shortages: Causes and Policy Implications - Dr Pritam Singh The lecture examines the short term and long term causes of food shortages, and suggests economic and environmental strategies that the governments, househol...

Pritam Singh reflects on famines and colonialism, the hoarding of resources by multinational corporations and the prospect of a food emergency.

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Taxation and Governance in Colonial Indonesia - Dr Maarten Manse One of the many ways in which colonial powers attempted to exploit colonized populations was through taxation. How did colonial officials organize taxation i...

Maarten Manse discusses Dutch rule in #Indonesia, taxation systems and the role of negotiation and resistance for indigenous populations.

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The Political Economic Governance of the Spanish Empire - Dr Julia McClure At the end of the fifteenth century Western Europeans breached their Atlantic seal and initiated a new era of global expansion. They were driven, in part, by...

Julia McClure discusses the Spanish Empire, the “encomienda system” and the ways in which indigenous people resisted excessive taxation regimes.

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Extractivism and Social Movements - Dr Andrea Sempértegui “Extractivism” broadly refers to the removal of great quantities of natural resources (hydrocarbons, minerals, or agricultural products) which are then expor...

@andysemp.bsky.social on resource extraction in Latin America, the “March for Life” in the Amazon and visions of a post-extractive future.

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Connected Sociologies of Pollution - Dr Su-ming Khoo Pollution is a difficult, but essential topic for understanding how colonialism results in inequality, exploitation and injustice. Pollution embodies unjust ...

@sumingkhoo.bsky.social explores wilful ignorance, the concept of “ecocide” and the importance of decolonial thinking.

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Plastics and Toxic Colonialism - Prof Alice Mah Plastic pollution gained global public attention in 2017 and 2018, following extensive media coverage of marine wildlife ensnared in plastic in the oceans. S...

Alice Mah discusses environmental injustice, the exportation of waste and the myths around the plastics industry.

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The Fictions of Modern Social Theory - Prof John Holmwood This series of lectures has been dealing with the role of colonialism and Empire in the development of European modernity. It is absent from secondary accoun...

John Holmwood explores hidden histories, the fiction of “modern subjectivity” and the opportunity to practice sociology differently.

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Political economy and the environment - Dr Keston Perry Debates in political economy have shifted from resource extraction as a means of accumulation under capitalism to consider how workers, indigenous peoples, B...

Keston Perry discusses climate injustice, the work of #SylviaWynter and the links between colonialism and the environment.

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Anti-Slavery, European Imperialism, and Paternalistic ‘Protection’ - Professor Joel Quirk The main role of organized anti-slavery during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to both legitimate and reinforce deeply rooted hierarchi...

Joel Quirk explores how anti-slavery campaigns were used to justify European conquest and colonisation in Africa.

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What is the Colonial Global Economy? Dr Paul Robert Gilbert It is increasingly common for claims to be made about the incompatibility between capitalist ‘progress’ and the institution of slavery, and to frame colonisa...

Paul Robert Gilbert explores how the transfer of wealth from the colonies to the metropole continues to shape inequality.

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Draining Value, Drowning Labour - Dr Lucia Pradella How much did the British gain from their empire? According to some calculations, Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India alone between 1765...

Lucia Pradella explores theories of colonial drain, Aimé Césaire’s “boomerang effect” and detention centres in Libya.

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Tocqueville: America and Algeria - Prof Gurminder K Bhambra Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel, Comte de Tocqueville was born in 1805 into the French nobility and a family estate in Normandy. He died in 1859. His wid...

Gurminder K. Bhambra on how #Tocqueville excluded indigenous and enslaved peoples from his account of US democracy.

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Marx: Colonialism, Class and Capitalism - Prof John Holmwood Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier, which was then part of the Prussian Rhineland (it became part of the unified German Empire in 1871), and died in London ...

John Holmwood unpicks the assumptions of #KarlMarx, the capital-labour relation and the process of “proletarianisation”.

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The UK’s global economic elite - Prof Arun Advani In this session we discuss the importance of international ties amongst the UK’s global economic elite, by exploiting administrative data derived from tax re...

Non-dom status: Arun Advani outlines the meaning of the term, the privileges it entails, and its colonial history.

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Exploring the Growth of Charitable Food Aid in the UK - Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite Since 2019 in the UK, there have been more food banks than there are branches of the fast food chain McDonalds. Austerity measures, amplified by a continual ...

Kayleigh Garthwaite takes a look at food banks, the idea of deservingness and why #RightsNotCharity matters.

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Deep Poverty - Dr Daniel Edmiston Since the 2007-08 global financial crisis, empirical sociology has made great headway to better understand economic elites and their bearing on social fragme...

Daniel Edmiston takes a closer look at the assumption that destitution is experienced only by people outside of Europe and North America.

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Durkheim: Modernity and Community - Prof John Holmwood David Émile Durkheim was born at Épinal in the Vosges Department of the Alsace region of France in 1858. He came from a Jewish family in which eight generati...

John Holmwood outlines the views of #ÉmileDurkheim on the rights of individuals, interfaith dialogue and “world patriotism”.

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Racial Capitalism - Dr Lisa Tilley An intellectual product of the Black Radical Tradition, ‘racial capitalism’ was first expansively developed as an account of the historical origins and embed...

Lisa Tilley discusses the landmark work of #CedricRobinson, the subjects of history, and why race is central to capitalist formation.

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Colonial Policing - Dr Adam Elliot-Cooper Standard discussions of police racism in Britain, present it as being a consequence of Britain becoming multicultural, as African, Caribbean and Asian people...

Adam Elliot-Cooper takes a look at settler colonialism, the Kenya Emergency and the broader histories behind British policing.

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Legacies of British Slave Ownership - Prof Catherine Hall For too long the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade in 1807 and slavery in the British colonies in the Americas in 1833 have dominated the ways in which B...

Catherine Hall explores the toppling of #EdwardColston, the “disavowal” of history and who is or is not remembered.

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Global Supply Chains and Unfree Labour: Past and Present - Prof Genevieve LeBaron Global supply chains today depend on and reinforce relations of unfree labour, including forced, child, and trafficked labour. These coercive labour relatio...

Genevieve LeBaron outlines how discussions around modern slavery often overlook the colonial roots of unfree labour.

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Colonial Policing Comes Home: Racism, Riots and Mugging in 20th Century Britain Britain in the 1970s and 80s saw the rise of a new generation of black and Asian youth who, unlike the previous generation, had been born in Britain. They we...

Adam Elliot-Cooper explores moral panics around mugging, Steve McQueen’s acclaimed BBC series #SmallAxe and rebellions against police racism.

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