So this week I had a piece in the Spectator which is a review of two books looking at the histories of the British Empire, it got me thinking of the ways in which “decolonization” has become a part of the narrative in academia. I’ve found that this is often presented in ways that seem somewhat trite, particularly given the people often trumpeting the idea of decolonization in the curriculum are the winners of settler legacies (a truly “decolonized” curriculum would be one they weren’t teaching….). One of the books I reviewed details the ways in which abolitionism became itself a model for excusing all kinds of other exploitation because after all,
anti/de/colonial?
anti/de/colonial?
anti/de/colonial?
So this week I had a piece in the Spectator which is a review of two books looking at the histories of the British Empire, it got me thinking of the ways in which “decolonization” has become a part of the narrative in academia. I’ve found that this is often presented in ways that seem somewhat trite, particularly given the people often trumpeting the idea of decolonization in the curriculum are the winners of settler legacies (a truly “decolonized” curriculum would be one they weren’t teaching….). One of the books I reviewed details the ways in which abolitionism became itself a model for excusing all kinds of other exploitation because after all,