We are collaboratively building a global network of scholars and an interdisciplinary platform that will enable us to collectively explore the meaning of political theory, to theorize the ways in which land and sea have bridged the anticolonial world, and the promises and limits of anticolonialism as a normative resource for the future global age.
In particular, our research cluster is engaged in two interdisciplinary sites of research to collectively advance the agenda of creating a global framework for studying the history of anticolonial thought:
anticolonial thought’s creative attempts to transform the imperial picture of the globe
the cross-racial solidarities that have forged anticolonial movements
UBC is a global leader in scholarship on empire, settler colonlialism, and area studies, and as such we have set up our cluster to explore four research strands:
Anticolonial Ideas of the Global
Land + Sea: Global Connections
Histories of Colonialism
Global Canon
Together, we are launching the following initiatives:
- Host research strand meetings to foster collaboration between scholars at UBC.
- Organize two large symposiums that bring together local and international scholars from a range of disciplines, to disseminate and foster research.
- Arrange four keynote lectures featuring invited speakers on the cluster themes.
- Address the urgent need to globalize curricular, formulate research and teaching questions concerning the Global Canon, and translate the pedagogic implications of our work.
- Provide seed grants to help further some of our cluster members' research initiatives.
2024/25:
- 4 strand meetings
- 1 symposium
- 2 keynote lectures
2025/26
- 4 stand meetings
- 1 symposium
- 2 keynote lectures
- 2 workshops
