'Empire is not a Metaphor': Power, Sovereignty and Global Justice
Course Description
Graduate elective course.
Building on to the seminal works of Tuck and Yang (2012) and Wolfe (2006), this course focuses on empire as a persistent structure of domination that shapes global development, power relations, sovereignty, and justice. Drawing on structural critiques informed by settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and imperial violence, the course examines how empire maintains itself and operates through institutions, borders, aid regimes, debt relations, and systemic violence. The course puts a careful emphasis on the ideological and material foundations and continuities of the empire -from colonial conquest to contemporary development and security regimes- while also centering liberatory frameworks for global justice and collective struggle.
Available only to MA and PhD students.