Anticolonialism in Thought and Practice

Wednesday, 9 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: FSE008 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC56 Historical Sociology (host committee)

Language: English

This session invites papers on the historical sociology of anticolonialism. We are interested in papers that examine the dynamics of anticolonial movements, anticolonial ideas and theories, or the results and implications of anticolonialism for modernity. Papers on anticolonialism of any time period from any part of the world are welcome.
Session Organizer:
Julian GO, University of Chicago, USA
Oral Presentations
Claudia Jones and the Reimagining of Citizenship: Anticolonialism and the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act
Ricarda HAMMER, UC Berkeley, USA
Towards a Truth Telling Commission on British Imperialism
Asha HERTEN-CRABB, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
Why Reunionese Anti-Colonial Thoughts Have Disappeared? Emergence and Decline of Anti-Colonial Ideas in Réunion in the Second Half of the 20th Century.
Jim SION, Université Paris Cité, Reunion
Pan-Africanism and Sociology: A Research Agenda
Ali MEGHJI, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Discursive Elaborations about PAN-African Negritude at the Colloquium ‘Negritude and Latin America’ in Dakar (1974): The Epistolary Communications between Clóvis Moura (Brazil), Manuzel Zapata Olivella (Colombia) and Nicomedes Santa Cruz (Peru).
Bruno BANDEIRA VASCONCELOS, Universidade Estadual do Piauí, Brazil; Diogo Pereira SILVA, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História -Universo, Brazil
Fort Allen: Migration, Empire, and Anticolonialism in the Caribbean
Fabio SANTOS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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