Exploring Past and Present of British Sexual Governance Across the Commonwealth
The performative and neocolonial nature of British LGBT discourse represents a continuation of the Empire through a seemingly progressive and benevolent agenda.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Imperialist Dynamics in International Law
By hegemonically promoting a hierarchical type of sovereign equality, the West perpetuates an unfair international system by failing to listen to distinct voices.
Development and Authoritarianism: China’s Political Culture and Economic Reforms
China’s economic reform avoided democratisation by balancing capitalism and socialism, highlighting industrial survival and nationalism, evading radical political change.
The Violence of Our Imaginations: War, Women, Nation
Perception of women as a nation’s reproducers justifies and motivates strategic sexual violence against them in, and even after, ethno-nationalist wars.
Nasser’s Ideology vs Practice: Postcolonial Critique of Egypt’s Yemen Intervention
Nasser subjugated Yemen to a dialectic of security and development, thereby rationalising the expedition’s imperiality and massive violence.
On the Role of Intelligence in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War
The answer to whether intelligence reduces uncertainty or overcomplicates the decision-making process lies somewhere in between.
Cartographic Domination in British India
As the authoritative text and imbued with colonial power, maps deeply affected how Indians related to their surroundings and their history and culture.
Frantz Fanon and the Inefficacy of Anti-colonial Violence
A more effective way of combatting colonial immanent violence is to dismantle the racialised and gendered discourses that make this violence possible.
Neo-Colonialism in Africa? An Analysis of a UK-Funded Volunteer Abroad Programme
The International Citizen Service programme failed to challenge unequal power dynamics between the Global North and Global South and perpetuated neo-colonial relations.
Suffering and Dependence: How Colonialist Discourse Denies African Statehood
To question decolonisation is to perpetuate the Hegelian notion of Africa’s historical immobility, and this can only be shed by the complete overthrow of the settler.
