Category: Empire & Global History
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Who Gets to Call Whom Barbarous? Montaigne on Custom and Cruelty
Montaigne on custom, cruelty and cultural judgement: Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson ask who gets to call another society barbarous.
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The Political Power of Song in the Baltic Way and the Collapse of Soviet Rule
How collective singing turned cultural memory into a form of non-violent political mobilisation during the Baltic Way and the collapse of Soviet rule.
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Empire after Empire? Soviet Rule, Decolonisation and the Politics of Collapse
Was the Soviet Union an anti-imperial federation, a new empire, or both? This essay examines nation-building, hierarchy, reform and the contested legacies of 1991.
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Postcolonial Thought: Bhabha, the Global South and Cultural Boundaries
How postcolonial thinkers challenge inherited ideas of culture, development and belonging – from Bhabha’s boundaries to migration and the Global South.