Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. He shows tha…
The wombs of women: race, capital, feminism
by Vergès, Françoise, Glover, Kaiama L.
fromTheory in Forms
"THE WOMBS OF WOMEN, originally published in France in 2017 as Le Ventre des femmes, and translated into English by French and Africana studies scholar Kaiama Glover, is Françoise Vergès's examination of the 1970s scandal in Réunion upon the discovery that doctors had performed …
"What is the just measure of Western obligations to Africa? As Africans and their supporters mark the two hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the United States and Great Britain, the question becomes increasingly salient. Calls for reparations for the ev…
More than half a century before the mass executions of the Holocaust, Germany devastated the peoples of southwestern Africa. While colonialism might seem marginal to German history, new scholarship compares these acts to Nazi practices on the Eastern and Western fronts. With som…
Monograph on the economics of underdevelopment - analyses the historical role of capitalist countries, of trade monopolys, industrial capital and colonialism, of production, consumption and profit functions, etc. In context with socialist economic theory of the law of value. Ref…
