PUBLIC WRITING

2022    ‘Climate Colonialism is more than a MetaphorTransforming Society 24 Oct

 

2022    ‘3 Challenges for a reparatory social scienceLSE Impact Blog 30 June

 

2022    ‘Decolonizing the Western Mind: Gurminder K. Bhambra, in discussion with Albena Azmanova’ in Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis 1 (2): 6

 

2022    ‘Colonial Taxes Built Britain. That Must be Taught in Lessons on Empire‘ Open Democracy 1 Apr

 

2021      ‘First, Citizens Were Turned Into Immigrants. Now We’re Being Stripped of Political Rights‘ Novara Media 15 Dec

 

2021      ‘Against Academic Investment CapitalismDecolonising Geography 21 Oct, with John Holmwood

 

2021      ‘Unsettling HistoriesThe Association of Commonwealth Universities Review 3 (1) April

 

2021     ‘Editorial: Rethinking Modern MigrationDiscover Society: New Series 1 (1) April

 

2020    ‘Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project‘ Sociological Review 5 Oct

 

2020     ‘Forget Westphalia. The Modern State was Born from Colonialism’ Why Is Mainstream International Relations Blind to Racism? Foreign Policy 3 Jul

 

2020     ‘FOCUS: Accounting for British HistoryDiscover Society 1 Jul

 

2020    ‘Learning about our past and how it affects the present‘ University World News 13 Jun

 

2020     ‘Toppled Statue Glorified Slavery’ New York Times 12 Jun

 

2020      ‘Rethinking Brexit in the light of Covid-19‘ Discover Society 22 Apr

 

2019      ‘On European ‘Civilization’: Colonialism, Land, Lebensraum’ in Nick Aikens, Jyoti Mistry, Corina Oprea (eds) Living with Ghosts: Legacies of Colonialism and Fascism L’Internationale Online available as e-pub and pdf here

 

2019       ‘Focus: Southall – Political Solidarity and the Creation of CommunityDiscover Society 3 Apr

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2018      ‘Brexit, Empire, and Decolonization‘ History Workshop Online 19 Dec

 

2018       ‘What does Black History Month mean for Sociology?British Sociological Association Newsletter October

 

2018      ‘To Decolonise the University is to Democratise the University‘ Times Higher Education 27 Sept

 

2018      ‘Racial Hierarchy and Migration in BritainMedia Diversified 25 June

 

2018      ‘The imperial nostalgia of a “Small Island”‘ The UK in a Changing Europe blog 4 June

 

2018       ‘In Britain, there has been no reckoning with the imperial past’ Interview with the Koerber Institute History Forum, May

 

2018      ‘In Defence of the Public University: The USS Strike in ContextDiscover Society rapid response 23 Feb

 

2017      ‘Why are the white working classes still being held responsible for Brexit and Trump?‘ LSE Brexit blog

 

2017      ‘Same History, Different Memories’ (with Charlotte Riley) New Humanist

 

2017      ‘Et opgør med fortielsen af Den Haitianske Revolution’ [Danish translation of ‘Undoing the Silencing of the Haitian Revolution’] Marronage Mar 31 pp36-41 (English translation here)

 

2016      ‘Brexit, the Commonwealth, and Exclusionary CitizenshipOpen Democracy Dec 8

 

2016      ‘Class Analysis in the Age of Trump (and Brexit): The Pernicious New Politics of Identity‘ Sociological Review Blog Nov 23

 

2016      ‘W.E.B. Du Bois in the Sociological ReviewSociological Review Blog Sept

 

2016      ‘Viewpoint: Brexit, Class and British ‘National’ IdentityDiscover Society #34 July

 

2015      ‘The Refugee Crisis and Our Connected Histories of Colonialism and Empire’ Sicherheitspolitik Blog (Germany) Oct 1

Migrants aboard a dinghy sail off for the Greek island of Lesbos as it travel from the southern Turkish coastal town of Behramkale in the Aegean sea between Turkey and Greece, August 27, 2015. REUTERS/Murad Sezer - RTX1PWJY

 

2015      ‘Europe won’t Resolve the ‘Migrant Crisis’ until it Faces its Own PastThe Conversation Sept 1

 

2015      ‘Capitalist Dispossession and New Justifications of Slavery,’ Open Democracy (co-authored with John Holmwood)

 

2015      ‘Committing Sociology: Defending the Public University,’ Sociological Review May 24

 

2015      ‘Global Sociology in Question,’ Global Dialogue 5 (2) June

 

2015      ‘Reading across the ‘Colour Line’: Texts, Traditions, and Academic Solidarity,’ The Disorder of Things Feb 10

 

2015      ‘Civil Rights for the Twenty-First Century: Lessons from US History,’ Discover Society #16 Jan

 

2014      ‘The Society of Equals: Some Groups are more Equal than Other Groups,’ Theory, Culture, Society Nov 25

 

2014      ‘What does the Haitian Revolution tell us about the Society of Equals?Theory, Culture, Society Oct 30

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2014      ‘The Little Rock Nine – The Schoolchildren Who Changed the US,’ Media Diversified Oct 27

 

2013      ‘Viewpoint: The Dangerous Politics of Belonging,’ Discover Society #1 Oct

 

2013      ‘Pride and PrejudicePolitics Reconsidered Apr 20

 

2013      ‘Opinion: What Sussex is Losing…’ Times Higher Apr 18