Colonial/Postcolonial/Decolonial
A starter pack of/for academics, researchers, students, writers, activists, organizations etc. whose work focuses on colonialism(s), and responses to/aftermath of, within critical, historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. To be added or to suggest others, comment or DM with bio.
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@keshavbansal.bsky.social
@clarepaterson.bsky.social
Author and former documentary producer. The Nine Lives of Annie Besant, Victorian rebel, out 2025. Volunteer with Care4Calais. Cold water swimmer, avid reader and painter.
@clementfabre.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-20th c. imperial knowledge | PhD @SorbonneParis1 | Sinology, transcultural interactions, body, sensitivity, race, language, and material culture
@rohandroy.bsky.social
Historian: South Asia, colonialism, science, insects. Associate Professor: University of Reading. Author: 'Malarial Subjects' (Cambridge,2017);Editor: Locating the Medical (Oxford, 2018). Words: ConversationUK; The Independent
@chdesportes.bsky.social
Political Philosopher at Uni of Leeds. Phenomenology, Anti/Decolonial Thought, Marxism
@sarafelix.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer Global Cultures & Liberal Arts Edu at KCL: de/coloniality, racial capitalism, critical ped, & epistemic justice. Researching the links btwn anarchist & anti-colonial mvmts during the Spanish Civil War, Brazil postWWII, & Angola in the 1960s
@santoshanand.bsky.social
PhD researcher at City Law School & Teaching Fellow at SOAS Law | international law, historical materialism, Third World | he/him. London
@matthewguerra.bsky.social
PhD student @uoregon | Sociology | Race and the Environment | Researcher w/ FireGen Collaborative https://linktr.ee/matthewguerra?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@faisalhamadah.bsky.social
Dr/comrade د./رفيق. Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies and Transnationalism
@faridahzaman.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford | working on ideas, empires, and religion | Director of the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social
@niyerseattle.bsky.social
Academic, Postcolonial and South Asian Studies, Editor-in-Chief South Asian Review, dog mom. All views personal
@willdalrymple.bsky.social
Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
@parvathimenon.bsky.social
Academic at SOAS Law | Marxist | Third Worldist She/her London | Cochin
@decolonialitynow.bsky.social
Cluster of Excellence initiative @unifreiburg.bsky.social. De/Coloniality today in a global 🌏🌍🌎 perspective. Focus on decolonial research practices. https://uni-freiburg.de/universitaet/coloniality-decoloniality/
@hizmir.bsky.social
Lecturer in Sociology (University of Leeds)- Interested in Critical Muslim Studies, Decoloniality, religion and secularism, Islamophobia, the Far Right and the Manosphere. Podcast host for Radio ReOrient. Enjoys gaming, anime and GNX
@ilotem.bsky.social
Looks like I’m a historian. Senior Lecturer at UWestminster: wrote a book about the memory of colonialism in Britain and France, and another one about the pitfalls of memory politics in post-WWII Europe. Dogs are better.
@kateimy.bsky.social
Writer/cat lover. Author of FAITHFUL FIGHTERS and LOSING HEARTS AND MINDS. Outfest Lab 2022. WGF Veterans Writing Project 2023-2024. AFF Josephson fellow. TWU Prof.
@aycacu.bsky.social
Author / Associate Professor at LSE Human Rights & LSE Sociology / Co-Editor, Humanity Journal & LSE International Studies Series at Cambridge University Press / Own Views / Rep: DGA Literary Agents https://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/people/academic-staff/ay
@kamamaclean.bsky.social
Historian of social and political communication in South Asia, currently working on a multisensory history of interwar anticolonial movements, with an emphasis on sound. South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg. She/Her.
@historianmkalb.bsky.social
Historian, writing about intersections of colonial, environmental, and African history; author of "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure, and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (2022, open access); worried about our planet; www.martinkalb.com
@kilderbenhauser.bsky.social
Historian, particularly of Germany, empires, colonialism, mass expulsions, global royals and ideas. Occasionally complaint rock and other nonsense. Living and working on Kaurna yarta.
@sulagnabasu.bsky.social
PhD candidate at University of Sydney cyber/tech, settler colonial studies, geography, gender and a few other things she/her 🔗 sulagnabasu.com
@sarahgharib.bsky.social
PhD student at St Andrews - studying narratives of terrorism, immigration, race, gender and religion through a postcolonial feminist approach.
@rmkhan.bsky.social
Lecturer in IR at Liverpool John Moores Uni, Co-convenor of BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group Critical Religion | Race | Gender | Discourse | Post- and Decolonial Theory | Abolition Profile: https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/17835-rabea-khan
@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
@meghanetinsley.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester | author: http://bit.ly/3HKURWE | memory, nationalism, post/decoloniality | she/her
@docmattmoudi.bsky.social
📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks Head of the Silicon Valley Initiative@ Amnesty Tech. Assistant Professor @Cambridge Digital Humanities. Views=own
@jairofunez.bsky.social
For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring... dignity.
@sarasalem.bsky.social
assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // she/her
@meerashar.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Australian National University ll South Asia, History, Postcolonialism, Empire ll Mum to two boys: one canine & one human, knitter, storyteller ll
@andreamajor.bsky.social
Historian of C18 and C19 Britain, India and empire, esp. East India Company colonialism, sati, slavery and social reform. Views my own etc. She/her.
@priyaatwal.bsky.social
Historian of empire, monarchy & cultural politics in UK/S Asia. Community History Fellow @ Oxford Uni. Views are my own. Book & contact info here: https://linktr.ee/drpriyaatwal
@jich.bsky.social
A peer-reviewed Taylor & Francis academic journal exploring the British Empire, the Commonwealth, and wider colonialism. EIC @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social AE @yiannicart.bsky.social BRE @evansmithhist.bsky.social CDE @jonasgjerso.bsky.social
@kriskel.bsky.social
postcolonialist/anglophonist, digital humanist, dog-walkist, and so on-ist // she/her // employed@cwru writing program
@amitbaishya.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Postcolonialist, South Asian Literatures, Anthropocene, Human Animal Studies, Plant Humanities, Northeast Indian Studies. Book Reviews Editor at "South Asian Review"
@farhanasultana.com
Professor, author, speaker Department of Geography & the Environment, Syracuse University Past: King’s College London; UNDP ✍🏼 Climate, water, politics, justice 📕 Confronting Climate Coloniality 🔗farhanasultana.com #GeoSky feed: https://tinyurl.com/a6mdyuvd
@southsouthmvmt.bsky.social
We're an autonomous transnational student-led collective claiming space for academics & activists from & for the global souths in social & political studies. https://www.southsouthmovement.org/
@uttara.bsky.social
Historian of borders and refugees in Modern South Asia and the British Empire. Sindhis.
@navyug.bsky.social
Historian, toiling in the archives & classroom | Eyes on labor history, popular culture, postcolonial critique, global capitalism | ਪੰਜਾਬ to پنجاب to Panjab
@gapsnet.bsky.social
GAPS - Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien). https://g-a-p-s.net/ linktr.ee/G.A.P.S
@jasminekgani.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE. History | Political Theory | Race | Colonialism | Resistance | MENA Teach on Colonialism & Israel-Palestine Repost/Like usually = bookmark or endorsement jasminekgani.wordpress.com
@clarachambara.bsky.social
'Scholar-adventurer'. Scholarship nowadays mostly in literature from South Asia and diaspora, postcoloniality/decolonization, & translation studies - Uni of York. Adventures are in food, Hindi/Urdu, Indo house, cycling, & (formerly) Zumba teaching
@stefcraps.com
Professor of English Literature at Ghent University. Memory and trauma studies, ecocriticism and environmental humanities, postcolonial and decolonial theory. Born at 335 ppm. He/him/his. www.stefcraps.com
@rkadelhi.bsky.social
Author | Professor Global and Postcolonial History Brand New Nation: Nationalist Dreams and Capitalist Designs in New India (Stanford & Harpers Collins) Delhi - Copenhagen https://ravinderkaur.net/
@amitav.bsky.social
Novelist and non-fiction writer; author of 'The Ibis Trilogy', 'The Great Derangement', 'Gun Island', 'The Nutmeg's Curse' and 'Smoke and Ashes'.
@sumimadhok.bsky.social
LSE Professor| Feminist Political Theorist| She/her| Own Views| Thinking and writing on imperialism; anti-imperial epistemic justice; rights politics in most of the world. New📕 bit.ly/3C3Tb7V
@keshavbansal.bsky.social
‘I took a breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.’ // Reader/Student @University of Delhi & Indira Gandhi National Open University // Literary/Cultural Studies | South Asian Languages/Histories/Sociologies