Global Social Theory is a large wiki-like project by Gurminder K Bhambra. Its central aim is decolonising and diversifying universities, production of knowledge, and social thought in general. It represents a large online library divided into three parts: concepts, thinkers, and topics in/of social theory and decolonial thought. Every part comprises of short, introductory articles on an according theme. It may be helpful to give you a general overview (and a list of basic readings) on the most essential areas of social theory: caste, class, and race; civil society; racism; secularism; feminism and many others. It may also allow students whose university curriculum in sociology, economics, or other social sciences lacks diversity to compensate for that.

Level: leicht

Global Social Theory

Multiple academic authors: professors, researchers, and lecturers.

globalsocialtheory.org

Developmental economics

2021

Level: leicht

The roots of dependency theory

João Braga

blobMetropolis

In this short video, John Holmwood problematizes Marxian Economics from a post-colonial perspective.

2021

Level: mittel

Marx: Colonialism, Class and Capitalism

John Holmwood

https://www.connectedsociologies.org/

This course will fundamentally ask whether we can, or even should use the word ‘decolonising’ in our pursuit of a better economics?

2022

Level: leicht

Decolonising Economics?

Michelle Meixieira Groenewald

Summer Academy 2022 for Pluralist Economics

Human Rights Economics strives for an economic system that is just for people and respectful of the planet that promotes social and economic justice that integrates a plurality of views and traditions and that is human rights consistent in both its processes and outcomes It posits that economics is blind …

2022

Level: leicht

What is Human Rights Economics?

Caroline Dommen

www.humanrightseconomics.ch

This course will cover recent contributions in economic history that, using geospatial data from anthropological maps, colonial archives and secondary sources, will explore current economic and development challenges by drawing parallels between the past and present.

2022

Level: leicht

African History through the lens of Economics

Elias Papaioannou, Leonard Wantchekon, Stelios Michalopoulos, Nathan Nunn, etc.

Online

Colonialism persists in many African countries due to the continuation of imperial monetary policy. This is the little-known account of the CFA Franc and economic imperialism.

2021

Level: leicht

Africa's Last Colonial Currency

Fanny Pigeaud, Ndongo Samba Sylla

Pluto Press

The relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. The concept of racial capitalism offers a way out of this impasse.

2021

Level: leicht

Histories of Racial Capitalism

Justin Leroy, Destin Jenkins

Columbia University Press

This edited volume presents a collection of articles that engage with various concepts from Marx’s Capital and Marxian theory in general, from a ‘Southern’ perspective. The book engages with four specific themes: “Reception of Capital in the East; Value, Commodity, Surplus Value and Capitalism; Population and Rent in Capital; and Issues Beyond Capital”.

2019

Level: leicht

‘Capital’ in the East

Achin Chakraborty, Anjan Chakrabarti, Byasdeb Dasgupta, Samita Sen

Springer Nature

Well-rounded insights with essay contributions from various perspectives into what it means to decolonize higher education.

2018

Level: mittel

Decolonising the University

Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial, Kerem Nişancıoğlu

Pluto Press

This edited volume put together by Jimi Adesina based on the proceedings of the Social Policy in African Conference in 2017 provides an overview of social policy in varied country contexts and fields especially in light of decades of the reduction in size and hollowing out of the content of …

2021

Level: mittel

Social Policy in the African Context

Jimi O. Adesina

African Books Collective

This book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere.

2022

Level: leicht

Changing Theory

Dilip M. Menon

Routledge

A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of Black Power, Ujamaa Villages, and the everyday people who put an end to a colonial era

2022

Level: leicht

Decolonial Marxism

Walter Rodney

Verso Books