Colonialism, Decolonisation, and Race
People who write about and/or resist colonialism, imperialism, and racism (historical and current). Recommendations of underrepresented scholars/writers/activists especially welcome. Non-dormant accounts.
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@jasminekgani.bsky.social
@nicolapratt.bsky.social
Professor of the International Politics of the Middle East, trade unionist, anti-imperialist, feminist
@ecomarxi.bsky.social
We demand dignity, liberation & self-determination for all people 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩 Views my own ecomarxi.substack.com ✍️
@ingridhk.bsky.social
Political economy, finance, empire, decolonizing economics. ingridhk.com
@diamondashiagbor.bsky.social
professor of law, university of birmingham | labour, EU, equality, race & colonialism | editor, European Law Open | FAcSS | fixed-term member, Matrix Chambers | trustee, Black Cultural Archives https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7533-8853
@aadeleon.bsky.social
writer and history prof | studying filipino migration, imperial economy, and nation-states | author of "barangay" (2021) and "bundok" (2023) | next 📖: "balikbayan" (2026) https://linktr.ee/aadeleon
@lisahajjar.bsky.social
Sociologist of law and conflict. I write about torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Ask me about Guantánamo.
@nishazadhy.bsky.social
urban refugee studies, humanitarianism, (Im)mobilities, border work. MSCA Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies @sspatleeds.bsky.social
@saranahmed.bsky.social
Writer and independent feminist scholar Queer person of colour #FreePalestine
@nasarmeer.bsky.social
Professor in SPS, Glasgow University. PI @GLIMER_Research. co-Editor @IDjnl. Academic Committee Chair @StuartHallFdn. FBA FRSE FAcSS. Writing in personal capacity.
@juliecupples79.bsky.social
Geography, media and cultural studies, Latin American studies. Co-author of Transmedia Geographies: Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence (Rutgers University Press). Witness to the destruction of the UK university 🏳️⚧️
@camilavergara.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of Essex Plebeian philosophy & praxis, deliberative democracy, intellectual history, critical legal studies, political economy. Publications: https://camilavergara.academia.edu/
@pkashwan.bsky.social
Env & Climate Justice Prof | Just Energy Transition CA NY ME | Commons | Editor @environmentalpol.bsky.social | Ex-Chair @isaess.bsky.social | Author: https://tinyurl.com/3v2fysfr | GoogleScholar https://tinyurl.com/PKGSChlr | Dad, Husband
@historylad.bsky.social
Kashmiri, researcher, JNU. Focus on history and culture. Anti-capitalist plotter, anti-colonial saboteur. Let's talk about liberation.
@hebagowayed.bsky.social
Sociology Prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
@prmlaurita.bsky.social
Director Pitt Rivers Museum. Prof Museum Studies and Ethics, University of Oxford. New to Blsk
@kalwantbhopal.bsky.social
Professor of Education and Social Justice, Director Centre for Research on Race and Education, University of Birmingham. Interests: race, gender, class, equity, social justice. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/education/bhopal-kalwant
@chanda.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof.: Theoretical Cosmology and Particle Physics ⚛️ 🔭 & Black Feminist Science Studies 🧪 Writer 📚: #DisorderedCosmos #EdgeOfSpaceTime #CosmosIsABlackAesthetic Web: chanda.science all Black/all Jewish. queer/agender/woman. Posts by/for me🖖🏽
@alexjwhite.bsky.social
Freelance historian with a focus on African anti-colonialism and the global media. PhD from Cambridge, hot takes from the depths of a radio archive somewhere.
@ayanassar.bsky.social
@nesrinemalik.bsky.social
Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
@sladjanalazic.bsky.social
The so-called ‘peace scholar’ | assistant professor | Yugoslawomen+ Collective | queer | she/they | the Balkans | talks loudly & carries a chihuahua |
@wunpini.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. | Journo/Scholar Views=Mine 📝 Al Jazeera, The Washington Post Pronouns: o, ŋuna, o dini Gonje🪕🥁🎤, Feminist, Dagbana🦁 https://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/african-women-in-digital-spaces
@danrueck.bsky.social
Historian of settler colonialism, sacred land and ruination, law and order, trees and rivers, theft and restitution. University of Ottawa, settler, he/him, www.danrueck.com
@kylecallen.bsky.social
PhD candidate in sociology at University of Oklahoma. Areas: disabilities, sexualities, gender, Native American/Indigenous Studies. Disabled and Chickasaw.
@msborges.bsky.social
PhDing at McMaster University Anticolonial thought and praxis | Affective archives of resistance | Iran All things political, academic, and cat memes
@takeoriveraphd.bsky.social
Asian American studies professor at Boston University's dept of English. Critical ethnic studies, performance theory, queer theory, video games. Playwright. Author of “Model Minority Masochism.” Also jokes. He/him.
@vvnsag.bsky.social
Lecturer in Film Studies. Palestinian and Arab cinema, film infrastructures, anticolonialism, and transnational solidarity. WIP. Scotland - Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) - France
@mibarizt.bsky.social
Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Ecological Humanities, Legacies of Colonialism, Environmental Conflicts | Author of Ecological Imperialism in EM Spanish Narratives | Web: https://miguelibanezaristondo.wordpress.com/
@evalax.bsky.social
PhD researcher questioning hydropolitics, power, discourses, and (neo)colonialism in African water governance 💧🕊️ often ranting about our climate crisis in 🇬🇧 / 🇫🇷 / 🇪🇸 (all views mine) he/him 🏳️🌈
@amozhor.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Politics at Centre College. Studies: Race & International Order; Emotions; Humanitarianism; Comp Racialization; Theory. Site: https://amozhor.weebly.com
@paulclammer.bsky.social
Writer | BLACK CROWN: Biography of Henry Christophe, King of Haiti | Antarctic Editor | Recovering Lonely Planet guidebook author | Bristol https://paulclammer.com/
@abdalhadi.bsky.social
Gazan. Researcher. I write and speak on MENA, Peace and Conflicts. Award-winning researcher. Author of “Trust in Divided Societies”. Www.abdalhadi.net
@ruha9.bsky.social
✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
@marceliusb.bsky.social
"Mar" "Sell" Us". Director of Center for Social Change, Associate Teaching Prof (Africana Studies, Philosophy, etc.), and Doctoral Candidate in Education. Former Law School Dean of Students, K-12 DEI admin, and cultural center director. *Views are my own*
@ladanrahbari.bsky.social
Associate prof in Political Sociology UvAmsterdam #MigrantAcademics #media #migration #nationalism #Islam #Iran #diaspora #gender Former FWO fellow, member@AmsterdamYoungAcademy "Migrant Academics Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe"
@sumingkhoo.bsky.social
Sociologist. Interested in development, human rights, higher education, books, transdisciplinary stuff. Posts personal. #academicsky
@amroali.bsky.social
Public Scholar | Sociologist | Middle East Analyst | UNESCO advisor for the Arab region. I explore fractured modernities of the Arab world & the Mediterranean. I write to reimagine. Alexandria-Berlin-Casablanca. www.amroali.com
@mikebankole.bsky.social
I research and write about race, racism, representation and British politics Usually on @novaramedia.com and @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social
@zahira.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Management University of Sussex Business School 🇮🇹🇵🇸 Director Sussex MBA Views mine! Repost&likes≠endors. Against all war crimes & #antipalestinianracism #غزة👀
@leilamhb.bsky.social
Sociology of Higher Education & International Relations • Race and Decolonization • Radical pedagogies for reparative futures • Lecturer
@lbikos.bsky.social
PhD Sociology, assistant prof., policing, prison industrial complex, criminalization, abolition. Co-liberation, community, radical love for. the. win. she/they
@jamesamark.bsky.social
Historian. Uni of Exeter. Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024); Socialism Goes Global (2022) https://arch-history.exeter.ac.uk/history/profile/index.php?username=jamark
@jessicawhyte.bsky.social
Assoc Prof. of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. Writes about economic sanctions, human rights, neoliberalism, international law.
@alonso-gd.bsky.social
Fellow in Human Rights at LSE Sociology. Blogs at Opinio Juris. Follow me on Twitch/Youtube. Views Personal. Peruvian. English / Español / Português
@aspainbradley.bsky.social
Professor of Law @ UCLA and Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights UCLA and Europe. Author of #GlobalRacism (OUP, coming in 2025) & Human Choice in Int'l Law (CUP, 2021).
@rahmaniis.bsky.social
Researcher on anti-religion racisme (especially Islamophobia) at RSCS UCLouvain Belgium
@tlmarttinen.bsky.social
Nordic Colonialism, Indigenized Lutheranism & Eugenics. Interests: Lived Stories/ Race & Genetics/ Disability & Euthanasia. PhD (C) CMH Oxford Brookes U. http://CONFRONT-EUGENICS.ORG. Research Collaboration-CEMFOR Uppsala U. SSHRC Awardee
@historymatterssyd.bsky.social
Historian. Gadigal country aka University of Sydney. Powerful Stories, purposeful history. Website michaelamcdonnell.org
@pauljmeighan.bsky.social
Gael Sociolinguist | Research: Colonialingualism, Transepistemic Education, Indigenous & Multilingual Pedagogies | Website: www.paulmeighan.com | Views=own, Reposts/likes≠endorsements
@daraghjgrant.bsky.social
UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com
@blackacademic.bsky.social
Womanist | Scholar-Activist | Decolonize, Defend, Disrupt Assistant professor in counselor education. https://www.liinks.co/blackacademic
@abolitionistdoc.bsky.social
@rkdasgupta.bsky.social
Associate Professor, London School of Economics| Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow| Labour & Coop Party Councillor| Deputy Cabinet Member for Social Justice & Culture, London Borough of Newham| He/They| https://linktr.ee/rohitkdasgupta
@saifshahin.bsky.social
👨🏼🎓 Asst Prof of Digital Culture at Tilburg University 🌍 Director of Digital South Research Lab shorturl.at/jb5fD ✂️ Associate Editor at Journal of Information Technology & Politics 🪶 #StopAsianHate as Hashtag Activism shorturl.at/Yiiil
@myhamismad.bsky.social
Philosophy PhD, McGill Teaching at Western University in London... not that London Political philosophy, Decolonial feminism, starting to write a book on Abolition https://muhammadvelji.com/
@jehadabusalim.bsky.social
Writer. Executive Director of Institute for Palestine Studies-USA ✍️ https://jehadabusalim.substack.com 🔗 linktr.ee/jehadabusalim
@meghanetinsley.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester | author: http://bit.ly/3HKURWE | memory, nationalism, post/decoloniality | she/her
@shaonta.bsky.social
It’s pronounced Shay-On-Tay! Asst. Prof of Sociology & AAAS at Dartmouth! I study Black People, Black Political Activism/Resistance, & Black Religion! #Jesus ✝️ #BLM ✊🏾 #ΖφΒ 💙 #SocAF ✨ Seattle 🌲☔️ ➡️ New England/NH🌲🍁 www.Linktree.com/ShaontaTheSociologist
@schlawinerkreis.bsky.social
19th-century German philosophy (mostly Hegel, with a dash of Marx) | Comparative philosophy of race | Africana philosophy | Philosophy of social science
@quilombo.bsky.social
🏝️ isleño. canary islander. international affairs. commons. post/de/anti-colonial. anti-racism. 🗣️ views are strictly mine. ✍️ Español / English / Français / Português
@antonioalcazr.bsky.social
Buhi’nən ᜈᜃᜊᜓᜑᜒ 🏳️🌈🇵🇭 — trying to work differently on the EU as a global colonial (trade) power — antonioalcazar.eu @southsouthmvmt.bsky.social
@profalang.bsky.social
Proud mom | Cherished daughter | Irritable sister | Beloved wife | A1 aunty | Chill friend | Relentless foe | Globally Black. Also an accidental academic (sociologist & health services researcher) and a reluctant low level univ. admin. Views are mine.
@nahmichelle.bsky.social
Artist and professor of poetic visualization, image reader, rummaging through the bins of US History, Visual Cultures, Asian American History, and purveyor of various other miscellany, de-centering colonial hegemony. Keeper of the weird. www.mylstudio.art
@naazrashid.bsky.social
University of Sussex, Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies IG hungrytiger71 she/her
@josephwillits.bsky.social
Head of Parliamentary Affairs at Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding). http://instagram.com/josephwillits/ https://linktr.ee/josephwillits Palestine, Lebanon, Parliament. From between Junction 12/13 of the M6. Not funny, but tweets my own.
@madiha.bsky.social
Antifascist. Assistant Prof @ Yale. Writing a book about digital war, drones, & empire w/ a view from the Global South. Former journo & filmmaker. Interests: tech; militarism; anticolonial, anti-imperial praxis; transnational solidarities.Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
@garethknapman.bsky.social
Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker. https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
@vidyakumar.bsky.social
Critic, Lawyer, Senior Lecturer in Law, DPhil (Oxon) @SOASLaw School, London UK, ✍🏾 on Revolution, Int'l & Consti' Law, Space Law, Legal Theory & History, Human/Labour Rights, Law+Lit , Feminist, Founder: Race & the UK Constitution Ass'n (RUKCA) (She/Her)
@paperwhispers.bsky.social
Mango eating, sunshine loving, data research and question asker. Immigrant.
@thenewthinker.bsky.social
writer. speaker. dialectical materialist. pan-african. fanonian. gramscian. freedom fighter. tech. data. || VIEWS ARE MY OWN 🟥⬛️🟩
@samihistorian.bsky.social
Manchester/New Orleans/Turkey Historian, Manchester & the British West Indies,1700-1833 http://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2019.1614324 #DigHums historical #GIS #dataviz VIEWS MY OWN
@drmakungu.bsky.social
I’m a psychotherapist, author, Africana Critical Theorist, professor of Africana Studies and activist intellectual looking for people who are passionate about human liberation. I live and work in Atlanta, Georgia.
@kamrank.bsky.social
Director of MOSAIC research at the University of Birmingham | Borders, CVE, surveillance and multilingualism | Security, Citizenship Testing, Race and Language
@roellinghoff.bsky.social
Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, and Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto. Postdoc at UTokyo. Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.
@zmkabba.bsky.social
@asimqureshi.bsky.social
Research Director at CAGE International. Author of Rules of the Game: Detention Deportation Disappearance (2009), A Virtue of Disobedience (2019), When Only God Can See: The Faith Muslim Political Prisoners (2024); and editor of I Refuse to Condemn (2020).
@prisonculture.bsky.social
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, etc...
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
@annameier.bsky.social
Union organizer; recovering academic | Your loud queer aunt 🏳️🌈 she/her | posts in English & German | itinerant Midwesterner | annameier.substack.com
@duncanbell.bsky.social
Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
@ayahnerd.bsky.social
It's me again! **This is my only public social media account** Muslim. Yale prof. Historian of upsetting things. Librarian. Black Feminist.
@heba-youssef.bsky.social
@esmat.bsky.social
@ryanswan.bsky.social
PhD student @StAndrewsIR and صايع سابق. Geopolitics (WANA); migration; postcolonialism and decoloniality; translation Eng-Ar; Scottish news in Arabic: https://scotlandinarabic.home.blog/
@amnakaleem.bsky.social
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Univ of Sheffield Politics. Co-convenor, BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group. Talk to me about counter-terrorism and communities. She/Her. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic-staff/amna-kaleem
@rohantalbot.bsky.social
Director of Advocacy and Campaigns, Medical Aid for Palestinians.
@ulasince.bsky.social
Associate Professor of political theory at SOAS; British Academy Senior Research Fellow; author of Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism (Oxford 2018; https://bit.ly/3a8F0mr); writes on colonialism, capitalism, race; www.ulasince.com
@nsharma101.bsky.social
There (really) is no place like home. Home Rule (2020, Duke U. Press) Home Economics (2006, U of Toronto Press) Professor, Sociology, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa #NoBorders nanditasharma.net
@misbah-hyder.bsky.social
Pedagogy nerd who thinks about agency, peacebuilding, & Islam. 🕌 Diagnosed as a high-performing paradox… 👀
@mellimo.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof at Uni Sussex working on libidinal & political economies of (liberal) war and violence; Feminist, queer & anticolonial thought & struggles. London | Aqueerius, middle-aged | she/her Personal account
@dzenetakarabeg.bsky.social
I teach, research, consult on #diaspora #justice #education #humanrights #migration #Balkans. PhD. Refugee. Vermonter. Transnational Bosnian American.