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Colonization has never been a top-down process, it is always shaped by resistance and refusal on the ground
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Anticolonial Ideas of the Global
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Anticolonialism was once understood as a mere answer to the problem of foreign rule, and for most of the past century, scholars studied anticolonialism largely in national terms
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Land + Sea: Global Connections
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The narrative of national self-determination tends to obstruct how anticolonial political thinkers responded to the global legitimation of empire, and the threads of solidarity and connection that continue to exist across land and sea
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Histories of Colonialism
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The anticolonial archive is our guide to understanding the formation of the modern world, ranging from the rise of democracy on a global scale to disputes over the meanings of multiculturalism and equality in everyday contexts
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Global Canon
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Anticolonial thought’s creative attempts to transform the imperial picture of the globe and the cross-racial solidarities that forged movements inform our interdisciplinary work to create a global framework for studying the history of anticolonial thought
Upcoming Events
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November 25, 2024
Research Meeting Visiting Speaker: Carolien Stolte
The next Research Meeting will feature a presentation by visiting speaker Carolien Stolte, Associate Professor of History at Leiden University. Her research and teaching focuses modern global history with a concentration on South Asia. She co-directs the Afro-Asian Networks Project with Su Lin…
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April 10 - April 11, 2025
Anticolonial Ideas of the Global Symposium
This symposium will bring together scholars from different institutions and disciplines to reflection on the ways in which political theorists and historians have been thinking about the problem of the global vis-à-vis the entwined modern history of empire and anticolonialism, particularly in the…
‘Imperialism’ means the practice, the theory, and the attitudes of a dominating metropolitan centre ruling a distant territory; ‘colonialism’, which is almost always a consequence of imperialism, is the implanting of settlements on distant territory”
- Edward Said
First Nations land acknowledegement
We acknowledge that our research cluster and the University of British Columbia's Point Grey campus are located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded homelands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.