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Syllabus 2019/20

Global Social Theory - a website set up by decolonial scholars to illuminate key concepts / thinkers

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Week 2 Reading Question

Assessment Guidelines: Reading Questions

Reading Questions Template

AS1 - Weeks 3 and 4

AS2 - Weeks 5 and 6

AS3 - Weeks 7 and 8

AS4 - Weeks 9 and 10

Week 1: Why Decolonise?

Bull, H. (1984). The revolt against the West. In The expansion of international society (pp. 217–228). Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

Sabaratnam, M. (2011). IR in dialogue… but can we change the subjects? A typology of decolonising strategies for the study of world politics. Millennium-Journal of International Studies, 39(3), 781-803.

Reading guide

Lecture 1 slides - Why Decolonise?

Lecture 1 Recording

Week 2: Du Bois and Debates on Imperialism

Du Bois, W.E.B. (1900) ‘To the Nations of the World’ (closing address, first Pan-African conference in London)

Hobson, J.A. (1902). ‘Imperialism and the Lower Races’. Imperialism: A Study, 237-246 only

Du Bois, W.E.B. (1915), ‘The African Roots of War’, The Atlantic, 707-714

Lenin, V.I. (1916) ‘The Division of the World Among the Great Powers’ Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, 76-87.

Du Bois, W.E.B. (1917). ‘Of The Culture of White Folk’, Journal of Race Development, Vol 7, pp 434-447

Wilson, W. (1918) Fourteen Points

Du Bois, W.E.B. (1919) Memorandum on the Future of Africa,

Reading Guide - Week 2

LSE Philosophy Forum podcast on Du Bois

Lecture 2 - Du Bois and Debates on Imperialism 2019

Lecture 2 recording

Week 3: Identity, Culture and Decolonisation

Nandy, A. (2012 [1983]). ‘The Psychology of Colonialism’, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism, VI-VIII [48-63] [15pp]

Rabaka, R. (2009). ‘Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor: Revolutionary Negritude and Radical New Negroes’. Africana Critical Theory: Reconstructing The Black Radical Tradition

Nardal, J. (2002 [1928]) ‘Black Internationalism’ (105-107) and ‘Exotic Puppets’ (108-113), printed in Sharpley-Whiting, T. D. (2002). Negritude Women. U of Minnesota Press.

Reading Guide Week 3

Lecture 3 - Identity Culture and Decolonisation 2019

Lecture Recording - Week 3

Week 4: Decolonising India

Krishna, G. (1966). The Development of the Indian National Congress as a Mass Organization, 1918–1923. The Journal of Asian Studies, 25(3), 413–430.

Alternative link to Krishna

Spodek, H. (1971). On the Origins of Gandhi’s Political Methodology: The Heritage of Kathiawad and Gujarat. The Journal of Asian Studies, 30(2), 361–372.

Alternative link to Spodek

Bose, S. (2011). His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle Against Empire. Cambridge, UNITED STATES: Harvard University Press - Chapter 1 (A Flaming Sword).

Anderson, P. (2012, July 5). Gandhi Centre Stage. London Review of Books, pp. 3–11.

Reading Guide: Decolonising India

Lecture 4 - Decolonising India 2019

Lecture Recording - Decolonising India

Week 5: Bandung and The Idea of the Third World

Berger, M. (2004). After the Third World? History, Destiny and the Fate of Third Worldism. Third World Quarterly, 25(1), 9-39.

Kang, L. (2015). Maoism: Revolutionary Globalism for the Third World Revisited. Comparative Literature Studies, 52(1), 12–28.

Desai, R. (2004). From National Bourgeoisie to Rogues, Failures and Bullies: 21st Century Imperialism and the Unravelling of the Third World. Third World Quarterly, 25(1), 169-185.

Final Communiqué of the Asian-African Conference, Bandung 1955

Reading Guide - the Idea of the Third World

The Idea of The Third World 2019

Lecture Recording - The idea of the Third World

Week 6: Concerning Violence - Fanon in Algeria

Fanon, F. (2001). ‘Concerning violence’. In The Wretched of the Earth. London: Penguin. Pp. 25-106

Film: Battle of Algiers

Reading Guide - Concerning Violence

Lecture Slides - Week 6

Lecture Recording

Week 7: Anti-colonial Nationalism and its Alternatives

Fanon, F. (1963). ‘The pitfalls of national consciousness.’ The Wretched of the Earth, 148-205

Chadya, J. M. (2003). Mother politics: Anti-colonial nationalism and the woman question in Africa. Journal of Women's History, 15(3), 153-157.

Reading Guide: Week 7

Lecture Slides - Week 7

Lecture Recording - Week 7

Week 8: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Futures

Tuck, E., &amp; Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, education &amp; society, 1(1)

Estes, N. (2017). Fighting for Our Lives:# NoDAPL in Historical Context. Wicazo Sa Review, 32(2), 115-122.

Reading Guide

Lecture Slides

Lecture Recording

Week 9: Race, Policing and the War on Terror [Student Choice]

Voting Form for Student Choice Lecture Topic

Michelle Alexander (2011) 'The Rebirth of Caste' in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press)

Arun Kundnani (2004). 'Chapter 2: The Politics of Anti-Extremism' in The Muslims are coming!: Islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic war on terror. London: Verso

Lecture Slides

Bull, H. (1984). The revolt against the West. In The expansion of international society (pp. 217–228). Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, education & society, 1(1)