Announcing the winners of the Colonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial Working Group Early-Career Researcher Paper Prize 2025
Winners of the 2025 prize sponsored by Review of International Studies have been announced.
Content from Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) working group
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD)
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What are the colonial constitutions and inflections of global order - past and present - and how do they manifest across political, economic, cultural, psychological and intellectual domains? IR scholarship has demonstrated an increased interest in the colonial question through theoretical and substantive engagements as well as via historical and contemporary investigations. This working group provides a space for these engagements wherein the colonial question can be operationalised as the distinctive framework for inquiry. Our members currently engage with the colonial question across numerous debates in the field of IR.
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News and analysis
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial paper prize for early-career scholars
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial paper prize for early-career scholars - nominations open now.
Call for papers - Anti-imperial feminist architectures of resistance
Call for papers for the Colonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial Working Group annual workshop in London.
Announcing the new Colonial Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group conveners
The Colonial Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) welcome three new co-conveners.
Announcing the results of CPD's third annual Early-Career Researcher Paper Prize
We're excited to announce details of the winner and runners up of the CPD ECR Paper Prize 2024.
Naked Empire: New tools/old stories and the colonial inheritance of the rules-based order
The call for contributions for the Colonial Postcolonial Decolonial WG Annual Workshop is open now.
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Paper Prize for Early Career Scholars 2024
This great prize is aimed at supporting early-career members in development of peer-reviewed work.
Announcing the results of CPD's second annual Early-Career Researcher Paper Prize
Congratulations to Christopher Choong Weng Wai on winning the Early-Career Researcher Paper Prize.
Past events
Roundtable: Anti-imperial feminist architectures of resistance
An in-person, public roundtable from the Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group.
Workshop: anti-imperial feminist architectures of resistance
The Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group are holding their annual workshop in London.
Naked Empire - A public roundtable
This public roundtable event marks 10 years since the CPD Working Group's founding.
Naked Empire: New tools/old stories and the colonial inheritance of the rules-based order
The 10th Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Annual Early Career Researcher Workshop.
Refusing carcerality - A public roundtable
The conversations at this public roundtable will aim to encourage an interrogation of carcerality.
Colonial Postcolonial Decolonial Working Group (CPD) annual workshop: Refusing carcerality
This year's workshop will be held at KCL and continues the theme abolition as an unanswered question
Abolitionist thinking as an unanswered question: CPD mentorship workshop - invitation only
This is an invitation only workshop open to those whose abstracts were accepted from the CfP.
Colonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial (CPD) Annual Business Meeting
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial working group annual general meeting.
Black lives and the international - virtual roundtable
Reflect on the histories and futures of Black struggle and its implications for ‘the international’.
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