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Anti-colonialism in the ‘post-colonial’ state
07 April 2025, 5:00 pm–7:00 pm
The political independence of (certain) nation-states in the Global South during the twentieth century was not the end of anticolonialism. The geographical borders and social projects of these new states were contested within the movements which had helped to create them.
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Peter Morgan
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IAS Common GroundG11, ground floor, South WingUCL, Gower St, LondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
For our second event of 2025, the London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar presents Dr Mahvish Ahmad (LSE) and Dr Sara Salem (LSE) speaking on the theme of anti-colonialism in the ‘post-colonial’ state, followed by a Q&A:
Mahvish Ahmad, “A Colony in a Colony: Balochistan and the Unfinished Project of Decolonisation.”*
Sara Salem, “Faded Dreams – On Encountering Traces of Anticolonial Pasts.”
*See the digital teaching tool on the bulletin Jabal, produced for the Baloch anticolonial struggle during the 1970s, developed for the project Revolutionary Papers, co-founded by Dr Ahmad to highlight more marginal anticolonial prints not canonised within postcolonial state histories: https://revolutionarypapers.org/teaching-tool/jabal-the-voice-of-balochistan/