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Sivamohan, Valluvan and Kapoor, Nisha (2023) Sociology after the postcolonial : response to Julian Go's "Thinking Against Empire". British Journal of Sociology, 74 (3). pp. 310-323. doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12995 ISSN 0007-1315.
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Abstract
Julian Go’s ‘Thinking Against Empire’ identifies the corpus of ‘anticolonial thought’ as being instructive for a wider rethinking of how sociology might rally its key conceptualisations of social relations. He insightfully identifies the marginalisation of such thinking from Sociology as an institutionalised discipline. In our response we take up some of the warnings Go provides in the closing sections of his essay – which concern the expanse of intellectual engagement being currently bracketed under or connected to the ‘anti-colonial’, not least vis-à-vis the ‘decolonising/decolonial’ turn – to further unpack how the ‘anti-colonial’ might be adapted for thinking through contemporary socio-political dynamics. Offering, first, a precis of some particularities of British Sociology vis-a-vis the contributions of anticolonial social theory, this article then expands upon the dilemmas arising when anticolonial theory contemporaneous to the pre-decolonisation era is transposed to contingencies of the present 21st century. Namely, whilst the anticolonial archive has proved invaluable to upending the omissions but also complicities of European social theory canons, allowing for a much more expansive sense of how the modern world and its violences were conjured and how we might accordingly escape its miseries, it is also clear that much of the postcolonial world has undergone sufficient shifts to warrant an adapted sense of how we consider the anti-colonial for our current politics. We suggest that the important deviations which anti-colonial theorisations might heed include the dangers of conflating the anticolonial with an affirmation of Global South, non-white nativist identity; the need to recognise some key conjunctural premises by which the anticolonial is no longer geographically indexed to a straightforward Global North-Global South distinction; and the need to acknowledge that, at its most radical, anticolonial thought is itself still invested in traversing both the dreams but also corruptions of those dreams as intrinsic to modernity.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Anti-imperialist movements -- History -- 20th century, Postcolonialism, Sociology -- History, Go, Julian, 1970- -- History and criticism, Decolonization -- History -- 20th century, Nationalism | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Sociology | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0007-1315 | ||||||||
Official Date: | June 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 74 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 310-323 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/1468-4446.12995 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
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Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 January 2023 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 February 2023 | ||||||||
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