6 credits | Dr. Daniel ELAM
This course introduces students to anticolonial and decolonial thought, and political thought more broadly, from the Global South. Anticolonial and decolonial thought, across the twentieth and twenty-first century, is the intellectual predecessor to postcolonial theory. It also demonstrates an engagement with political thought from Western Europe, but reveals its shortcomings and its presumptions. This course will study and analyse primary texts by key anticolonial thinkers from South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. The course thus focuses on writing that emerged in response to European empires: British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. The thinkers we will study include M.K. Gandhi, Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant, Paulo Friere, Steve Biko, and many others.
Assessment: 100% coursework.