Resources

Title Journal/Publisher Cluster Authors All Authors Publication Date
Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Life Worlds Bloomsbury, forthcoming. Renisa Mawani Co-edited with Antoinette Burton and Samantha Frost.
Studies in Unauthorized Reproduction: The Pirate Function and Decolonization MIT Press, Infrastructures series (under contract) Kavita Philip
Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-66 in Indonesia University of Wisconsin Press John Roosa
'Rights in Late Mughal and Early Colonial South Asia,' in The Cambridge History of Rights, Volume 4: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Cambridge University Press Hasan Siddiqui Dan Edelstein and Jennifer Pitts, eds.
'What is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category' American Political Science Review (forthcoming) Nazmul Sultan
Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Nazmul Sultan
'The Global Network of Liberty: Toward a New Framework for Understanding the History of Political Concepts' American Political Science Review. Accepted and forthcoming. Shoufu Yin
‘Colonialism vs. Imperialism’ Political Theory. Vol. 52:1 Barbara Arneil
'Liu Bei, Plato, et al. on Kingship: A Microhistory of Seventeenth-century Globalization and Political Thought' History of Political Thought XLIV.4 (2023): 676–704. Shoufu Yin
'How Should the Dragon King Memorialize the Jade Emperor? Margins of Political Thought in Late Ming China' Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, 10.2 (2023): 461–486. Shoufu Yin
'The Law of the Sea: Oceans, Ships, and the Anthropocene', in The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene, 115-129. Routledge Renisa Mawani P. Burdon & J. Martel
'Speaking on behalf of the Korean King: Rhetorical Education and Political Representation in Early Modern China' The Journal of Asian Studies 82.4 (2023): 549–569. Shoufu Yin
'Moral Empire and the Global Meaning of Gandhi’s Anti-Imperialism' Review of Politics 84, no. 4 (2022): 545-569. Nazmul Sultan
'Redefining Reciprocity: Appointment Edict and Political Thought in Medieval China' Journal of the History of Ideas 83.4 (2022): 533–554. Shoufu Yin
'Between the Many and the One: Anticolonial Federalism and Popular Sovereignty' Political Theory 50, no. 2 (2022): 247-274 Nazmul Sultan
‘Organic vs. Inorganic Citizenship’ Citizenship Studies, 25th Anniversary Special Issue. 26. 2022. Barbara Arneil
‘Jeremy Bentham: Pauperism, Colonialism and Imperialism’ American Political Science Review. Vol 115:4 Barbara Arneil
'Independence, Freedom, Liberation: The Promise of Bangladesh’s Founding' Economic and Political Weekly LVI, no. 44 (2021): 40-46 Nazmul Sultan
‘Origins: Colonies and Statistics’ CPSA Presidential Address. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 53:4. December 2020. Barbara Arneil
‘Demobilised Soldiers, Small Holding Colonies and Compulsory Acquistion of Land After WWI: Scotland and Canada. Journal of Northern Scotland. 11:2, Celebrating and Situating the 1919 Land Settlement (Scotland) Act, November 2020. Barbara Arneil
Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times Duke University Press Renisa Mawani Co-edited with Antoinette Burton
'Self-Rule and the Problem of Peoplehood in Colonial India' American Political Science Review 114, no. 1 (2020): 81-94. Nazmul Sultan
Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories University of British Columbia Press Renisa Mawani Co-edited with Rita Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, and Satwinder Bains
‘Domestic Colonies in Canada’ Canadian Journal of Political Science, September 2018 Barbara Arneil
Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire Duke University Press Renisa Mawani
Domestic Colonies: The Turn Inward to Colony Oxford University Press Barbara Arneil
'Indonesian Communism: The Perils of the Parliamentary Path,' in The Cambridge History of Communism, vol. 2. Cambridge University Press John Roosa Edited by N. Naimark, S. Pons, S. Quinn-Judge.
'From ‘Wards of the State’ to Subjects of Recognition?', in Theorizing Native Studies. Duke University Press Glen Coulthard Andrea Smith and Audra Simpson, eds.
Recognition and Self-Determination University of British Columbia Press Glen Coulthard Co-edited with Andrée Boisselle, Avigail Eisenberg, and Jeremy Webber
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition University of Minnesota Press Glen Coulthard
‘Liberal Colonialism, Domestic Colonies and Citizenship’ Journal of the History of Political Thought. Vol 33:3, 2012: 491-523, 2012. Barbara Arneil
Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921 University of British Columbia Press Renisa Mawani
‘Global Citizenship and Empire’ Citizenship Studies. Volume 11:3 (301-328) July, 2007 Barbara Arneil
Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup D’Etat in Indonesia / Indonesian translation: Dalih Pembunuhan Massal: Gerakan 30 September dan Kudeta Suharto University of Wisconsin Press, 2006 / Jakarta: ISSI dan Hasta Mitra, 2008. John Roosa
Civilising Natures: Race, Resources and Modernity in Colonial South India Rutgers University Press Kavita Philip
Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization M. E. Sharpe Kavita Philip Co-Editors: Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Englehart, Andrew Nathan, Kavita Philip
'The Politics of Human Rights' National Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 11, No. 2, March 2000. Barbara Arneil
John Locke and America: The Defence of English Colonialism Oxford University Press, 1996 Barbara Arneil
'The Wild Indian’s Venison: John Locke’s Theory of Property' Political Studies, Vol. 44, No. 1, March 1996, pp. 60-74 Barbara Arneil
'John Locke and the Economic Defence of Colonialism' Journal of the History of Ideas, October 1994, pp. 591-609 Barbara Arneil
'John Locke, Natural Law and Colonialism' Journal of the History of Political Thought, Vol. XIII, No. 4, Winter, 1992, pp. 587-603 Barbara Arneil

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