American Indian Studies Program

Modern Critical Theory Lecture: POSTCOLONIAL THEORY - Julian Go

Event Type

Lecture

Sponsor

Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory

Location

Levis 210

Date

Nov 11, 2025 5:15 pm

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11/11 COLONIAL/DECOLONIAL THEORY

Julian Go (Sociology, University of Chicago)

Edward Said. 1978. Orientalism, pp. 1-28, 31-49, 53-68, 76-81, 86-87, 92-110, 149-157, 201-209, 221-225, 284-296, 320-328
Leela Gandhi. 1998. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction, pp. 1-22 (Ch. 1 “After Colonialism”)
Dipesh Chakrabarty. 2000. Provincializing Europe, pp. 3-26 (“Introduction”)
Julian Go. 2023. “Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory,” British Journal of Sociology (open access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.12993)
Julian Go. 2024. Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the United States pp. 1-30 (“Introduction”)