Professor of Historical Sociology
Author of Colonialism & Modern Social Theory, Connected Sociologies, and Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism & the Sociological Imagination.
‘Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.’ This aphorism neatly captures some of what is at stake in terms of how histories of empire and colonialism are remembered, and the difference that remembering them makes to how we think about the modern world.
https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2026/03/03/remembering-empire-rethinking-modernity/
Koloniales Erbe und „Postkoloniale Angst“: Zum Stand der kolonialen Aufarbeitung vor Ort
The special issue of Contemporary European History on "Navigating Post-Imperial Transitions after the First World War" by Anna Ross and Jean-Michel Johnston is finally published.
Happy to have provided an article on the imperial afterlives of C. Woermann 1919-1945: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/article/colonial-business-in-postcolonial-germany-the-imperial-afterlives-of-c-woermann-19191945/BB2818B2EB2FA46B072B7FDF7A03F644
Texas A&M, an institution that purports to be a university, has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato.
“People who achieved remission from prediabetes had a 58 percent lower risk of cardiovascular death or hospitalization for heart failure”
https://indiawest.com/reversing-prediabetes-can-reduce-heart-attack-risk-by-nearly-60/
This just seems nasty. It brings to mind that the Nazis confiscated the property of Jews and others fleeing their regime.
Where's the compassion gone?
"Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/17/refugees-jewellery-asylum-home-office?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Mary Francis Ames in 1899 wrote a book called An ABC, for Baby Patriots to impart patriotic (read: colonial/imperial/supremacist) values in English children through the alphabet.
This is what she writes for “I”.
This is welcome, but the also axed Paris-Vienna route still has no replacement.
New sleeper services will run from Paris to Berlin next year | Rail travel | The Guardian
#NightTrains
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/nov/12/new-european-sleeper-service-berlin-vienna (#TrackingCookieAlert )
🗣 We have opened another call for proposals: ‘The Alter-lives of Independence Movements: Frustrated Hopes, Renewed Utopias’ will be an international conference that explores the evolution and transformation of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggles.
🌍 Is part of the Joint International Workshop “Hopes and Fears. Anti-colonial and Postcolonial Imaginaries in the Lusotopy and Beyond”
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/alterlives-independence-movements/
#Histodons #CFP #AntiColonialism #AntiIperialism #ColonialHistory
#LastCall: 10 days left to apply for a postdoctoral position at the ERC project “Cultures of the Cryosphere” | @cryocultures !
⌛ Nov 17
📍KWI Essen | Universität Duisburg-Essen
👉All details: https://tinyurl.com/w4uhe9zs
#Stipendium #Soziologie Kohli Fellowship for Sociology https://kohlifoundation.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Call_KohliFellowship_WZB_2026.pdf Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
It's that time of the year again, the National Trust AGM where council members are selected, and yet again, the right leaning Restore Trust have a selection of plausible candidates entered. Be warned, they do not have the best interests of the Trust in mind, more of a culture war. So again, I appeal to all Trust members in England and Wales to make sure you vote. Just go to the site and search for AGM. Enter your membership details. Safest bet is to use the block vote. Please boost.
1 professorship at the University of Augsburg, Germany (political science, IR and conflict studies):
https://www.uni-augsburg.de/en/jobs-und-karriere/stellenangebote/2025/09/22/university-professor-salary-for-political-science-with-a-specialisation-in-international-relations-faculty-of-philosophy-and-social-sciences_7785/
I am looking for a map illustrating where “Global History” scholarship is being produced and claimed globally. I’ve seen and used this map before but can’t find it again. Any references or links would be much appreciated.
Indian development at a crossroads - part 2
Join us for this in-person and online event on Friday Oct 3 that explores authoritarian top-down models of development in India and how these are challenged from below.
At Institute of Development Studies or online , details below
https://www.ids.ac.uk/events/indian-development-at-a-crossroads-part-2/
#India #Development Authoritarianism
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me —...
🌍🎓 Discover the complex narratives of colonial violence and the quest for postcolonial identity in West Africa! Join us on 🗓 8 July 2025 from 🕕 20:15 to 21:45 in 📍 HS 1228, KG I, for Dr. Kokou Azamede’s thought-provoking talk: “Koloniale Gewalt und postkoloniale Identität: Auf der Suche nach Selbstbestimmung in Westafrika.” Whether you’re attending in person or tuning in via Zoom, this is an opportunity to delve deep into history and its impact on identity.
🔗 Curious to learn more? Email anika.becher@act.uni-freiburg.de for the Zoom link and visit the event page: https://t1p.de/23qqm
#colonialism #postcolonial #westafrica #decolonial #globalstudies #empire #histodons #histodon #academicmastodon #empires @empires @unifreiburg @mehlera @ManuelaBoatca @histodons @histodon @dfg_public @politicalscience
#Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull. Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains.
They should get some genealogical DNA done to learn more about the dead woman.
"So how do I respond to the idea that a place that has been to me and many hundreds of Chevening scholars from across the globe has been such a haven for free enquiry and open expression has been fined for a breach of free speech?"
https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/04/03/free-speech-and-the-university-of-sussex/
