果冻影院

From campaigns for reparations to calls to decolonize statues and symbols, the legacies of past injustice are very much present in our political and social life. Moreover, for Indigenous groups and even many postcolonial societies, colonialism and neo-imperialism remain pressing concerns. In this module, we explore the moral and political questions raised by historic injustice, with a focus on race and empire. We approach these topics by studying the perspectives of Third World and Indigenous anticolonial thinkers, as well as engaging with work by contemporary political theorists and postcolonial thinkers. In exploring questions of anticolonial resistance, neo-imperialism, restitution, and reconciliation, we will consider the following questions: (1) What is 鈥渄ecolonization鈥�, and how was it imagined and theorized by those who fought for it? (2) To what extent and in what ways have various forms of imperialism persisted to this day? (3) What, if any, moral and political obligations do beneficiaries of past and present structural injustice have? (4) To what extent is it possible to repair relations between historically privileged and oppressed groups, and what, if any, are the roles of reparations, reconciliation, and recognition in addressing colonial injustice? Possible topics include: anticolonial nationalism, anticolonial internationalism, settler colonialism, reparations, restitution, cultural decolonization, and so on.