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.
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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 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.
Colonial Postcolonial Decolonial Paper Prize for Early-Career Scholars - applications open
This great prize is aimed at supporting early-career members in development of peer-reviewed work.
Colonial Postcolonial Decolonial Working Group (CPD) annual workshop CfP: Refusing carcerality
The call for papers for the CPD Annual Workshop is now open, taking place at KCL in September.
Announcing the results of CPD's first annual Early Career Researcher Paper Prize
We are excited to announce the results of CPD's first annual Early Career Researcher Paper Prize.
Colonial Postcolonial Decolonial Paper Prize for Early-Career Scholars
CPD have launched a new prize for early-career researchers in the development of peer-reviewed work.
Call for papers - CPD mentorship workshop: Abolitionist thinking as an unanswered question
CPD is inviting early-career and doctoral scholar members to submit papers to a mentorship workshop.
Past events
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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