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Much of the devastation of our globe’s natural resources traces its origins to early colonialism. These relationships continue to define the extraction of resources that severely impact ecosystems.
Research shows that one way of challenging racism is to bring people together and to allow those who experience it to share their stories.
The solidarity conference by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) can be seen as a reaction to the gradual shift of power towards Morocco.
The UK has been humiliated by a judgment that offers hope to other nations looking to unburden themselves from the legacy of imperialism.
Climate justice policies could potentially double as tools of colonialism that harm people outside the US.
Hernán Cortés owed his conquest of the Aztecs to his expedition’s unknown, unseen secret weapon: the smallpox virus. Disease epidemics can set the course of human history.
Why altruism is in shorter supply than the industry wants you to believe
These technologies could turn into a powerful tool for fighting global warming, and they have the potential to address historical climate injustices.
The intertwining of the market, state and society has continued to see itself expressed through music in the DRC.
A design team at Emily Carr University worked with families from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Nation to support the development of healthy environments for children.
Sarah Baartman’s name can be elevated to the highest point of the University of Cape Town’s campus, but if her legacy isn’t built into each classroom and interaction the honour is hollow.
One of the ‘first white women’ to travel in the Northern Territory, Elsie Masson’s attitudes to the Aboriginal people she met expressed the contradictions of racial thought at this time.
Old 19th-century agreements between the U.S. government which expelled Indigenous peoples from their land and gave it cheaply to white settlers continue to impact inequalities in the United States.
Donald Trump portrays migrants as a foreign problem ‘dumped’ on America’s doorstep. That view ignores the global forces that bind nations together, including trade, climate change and colonization.
Villagers from a community in South Africa’s Eastern Cape fought to be consulted and for the power to consent to mining their land.
We need a more nuanced approach to the world’s last isolated peoples.
Australia is becoming more diverse, but these charts show we are still predominantly an Anglo society with strained relations with other cultures, particularly Indigenous and Muslim Australians.
Colonial powers plundered the heritage of countries all over the world – restitution is long overdue.
Outdated water permit systems are threatening food security on the continent. Here’s what can be done.
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Professor of Indian and Colonial History, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa and Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations, Utrecht University
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SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for South Asian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
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Head of Research Programme, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Lakehead University
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Curator & Section Head, Oceania, The British Museum
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Associate professor, McGill University
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Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor in Political Science, University of Freiburg
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Assistant Professor, Departments of History and Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba
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Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, The University of Western Australia
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