Decolonization

Kim speaks with Jini Kim Watson about decolonization. In the episode she quotes John Kelly and Martha Kaplan’s book Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization, University of Chicago Press, 2001. She also references Odd Arne Westad’s book The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, Cambridge UP: 2005; Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Culture, Currey, 1986; Lorenzo Veracini’s work on settler colonialism and decolonization; and Patrick Wolfe’s argument that invasion and colonialism is not an event, but a structure. To learn more about the “opening” at the moment of decolonization after WW2; she suggests you consult Gary Wilder, Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World, Duke UP, 2015. Jini teaches in the English Department at NYU. Her book on decolonization in the Cold War, Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization is forthcoming from Fordham University Press. This week’s image is a 1942 proposed map for a New World Order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices