Bringing imperialism back in: for an anthropology against empire in the twenty-first century

What can a critical analysis of imperialist political economy offer the decolonial turn in the contemporary social sciences? How might revisiting “classic” anti-imperialist thought and politics from the global South push scholars and activists to envision a more revolutionary decolonization? And how...

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Main Authors:	Campbell, Stephen, Aung, Geoffrey Rathgeb
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Published:	2024
Subjects:	Social Sciences Imperialism Imperialist political economy
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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-1800282024-09-15T15:30:26Z Bringing imperialism back in: for an anthropology against empire in the twenty-first century Campbell, Stephen Aung, Geoffrey Rathgeb School of Social Sciences Social Sciences Imperialism Imperialist political economy What can a critical analysis of imperialist political economy offer the decolonial turn in the contemporary social sciences? How might revisiting “classic” anti-imperialist thought and politics from the global South push scholars and activists to envision a more revolutionary decolonization? And how, in our discipline’s history, have anthropologists variously opposed or been complicit with the workings of imperialist power? In this article, and in the special issue of Dialectical Anthropology that this article introduces, we engage these questions with a call to bring imperialism “back in” to anthropological research and analysis. Our proposal, however, is not simply for an anthropology of empire, but for an anthropology against empire—a project, that is, not solely of interpreting imperialism, but of aiding its abolition. Published version Open access funding provided by University of Vienna. 2024-09-10T04:56:06Z 2024-09-10T04:56:06Z 2024 Journal Article Campbell, S. & Aung, G. R. (2024). Bringing imperialism back in: for an anthropology against empire in the twenty-first century. Dialectical Anthropology, 48(2), 145-161. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10624-024-09724-0 0304-4092 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/180028 10.1007/s10624-024-09724-0 2-s2.0-85193215259 2 48 145 161 en Dialectical Anthropology © 2024 The Author(s). Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/. application/pdf
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Bringing imperialism back in: for an anthropology against empire in the twenty-first century

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