Centre for Post-colonial and Globalisation Studies
Post-colonial studies
have been invigorated in recent years, generating new and important ways of
looking at major intellectual and political issues. Our research harnesses
the breadth of that approach – bringing together disciplines as diverse as
anthropology, sociology, media and theology – to examine questions of power
and representation that impact on the development of sustainable modern
societies.
Post-colonialism provides a new way of understanding political concerns through the lens of culture at the same time as making cultural questions political. Increasingly topics that we would broadly define as post-colonial politics have emerged from scholars in a broad array of fields. Recent important books in the field connect post-colonialism with a series of historical and ethical questions that speak to the very heart of the human condition. Our understandings of history, place, race, culture and identity are open to new challenges. This centre wishes to promote just this new type of work.
Our understanding of post-colonialism is broad and inclusive, challenging existing disciplinary boundaries. The centre aims to provide a space for engagement with the plurality of post-colonial thought and for contending and alternative lines of thought.
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Objectives
- to advance learning in the field of post-colonial studies
- to promote and encourage appropriate research, both theoretical and applied
- to facilitate international intellectual exchange and to establish links with overseas institutions with similar concerns
- to contribute to intellectual debate through published work directed to the study of post-colonial concerns and societies
- to contribute to public debate and to promote awareness regarding post-colonial issues.
Activities
To advance these objects, the centre undertakes to provide a base for: collaborative grant applications; postgraduate research students; postgraduate training; interdisciplinary seminar series; conferences, seminars and lectures around post-colonial themes; a new series of books on post-colonial politics; and the three interdisciplinary journals edited by Prof Pal Ahluwalia.