Overview
ESSAY 2: What, if any, is the relationship between anti-colonial and decolonial forms of struggle? [2,500 word essay] MAKE SURE TO ARGUE A SIDE/STICK TO A SIDE BUT ALSO GIVE A CRITICAL PARA + CONCLUSION.
Please use (you must use) THE SOURCES BELOW THAT ANSWER THE QUESTION. MAIN FOCUS IS ON ANTI-COLONIAL AND DECOLONIAL FORMS OF STRUGGLE but please add/use your own sources too. LIKE 5 your own. Use key concepts from the module e.g. : Modernity = the ‘colonial-modern’, The multiverse/pluriverse or a ‘World of Many Worlds’, Cosmology (transcends modern human/nature dualism): land, and human relationship to it
1. Mignolo, Walter D. 'Delinking: The rhetoric of modernity, the logic of coloniality and the grammar of de-coloniality', Cultural Studies, 21:2, 2007, 449 - 514
2. E. Tuck & K.W. Yang, ‘Decolonization is not a metaphor’ Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1: 1, 2012, pp.1-40
3. Grosfoguel, Ramón. ‘Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality’, TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 2011, available at: http://dialogoglobal.com/texts/grosfoguel/Grosfoguel-Decolonizing-Pol-Econ-and-Postcolonial.pdf
4. Nandy, Ashis. The Romance of the State and the Fate of Dissent in the Tropics (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp.61-82
5. Bhambra, Gurminder K. ‘Postcolonial and decolonial dialogues’, Postcolonial Studies, 17:2, 2014, 115-121
6. Robbie Shilliam, The Black Pacific: Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections (London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2015)
7. Rivera Cusicanqui, Silvia. (2012) ‘Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of Decolonization’, The South Atlantic Quarterly, 111(1): 95-109.
8. Kamala Kempadoo, ‘The white man’s burden revisited’, https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/white-mans-burden-revisited/
Rahul Rao: Neoliberal antiracism and the British university / Radical Philosophy you can use this too if it relates.
ADD YOUR OWN SOURCES IN RELATION TO THE QUESTION. MAKE SURE EACH PARAGRAPH LINK. MAIN FOCUS IS ON ANTI-COLONIAL AND DECOLONIAL FORMS OF STRUGGLE. Make sure it links to the question focus on anti-colonial in particular too not just decolonial.
If the sources below are better in answering the question you can also replace it with some of the ones above. But REMEMBER IN TOTAL IT NEEDS TO BE 8/9 FROM THIS LIST AND 5 YOUR OWN.
1. Ho Chi Minh, 'Some Considerations on the Colonial Question', 1922, https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1922/05/25.htm
2. Glen Sean Coulthard, Red Skin, White Masks : Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (University of Minnesota Press, 2014) Chapter 5 THIS MIGHT BE A GOOD ONE TO REPLACE?
3. Paul Kohlbry, 'To cover the land in green: rain-fed agriculture and anti-colonial land reclamation in Palestine', The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2120807
4. Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) - Read Chapter 12 (Fugitive Dreams)
5. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) Chapter 10
6. The Movement for Black Lives Platform, ‘A Cut in US Military Expenditures and A Reallocation of those Funds to Invest in Domestic Infrastructure and Community Wellbeing’ https://m4bl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CutMilitaryExpendituresOnePager.pdf
7.Shalom Cohen and Kokhavi Shemesh, ‘The Origin and Development of the Israeli Black Panther Movement’, MERIP Reports, No. 49 (Jul., 1976), pp. 19-22
PLEASE USE YOUR OWN SOURCES TOO. READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.