States, Empires, and Postcolonialism

Harvard FAS

This seminar introduces major approaches to empires in social sciences, with a particular focus on the global and postcolonial turns and their critiques. We will discuss canonical works of postcolonialism, subaltern studies, and the Black Radical Tradition together with contemporary empirical work on empires. This seminar aims to 1) develop a comprehensive understanding of the conceptual toolkit of postcolonial thought and the Black Radical Tradition while addressing the sociopolitical…