Two principles are at stake in the debates over the Ramsay Centre: 1) that academia must be a space of impartial inquiry, one not swayed or influenced by economic or political interests, whether in the form of outside funders or inside “left-wingers”; 2) that academic study should not be dogmatic but critical and – as…

Over the last seven years, I have published a number of pieces all of which draw out the historical and theoretical implications of the Italy/Ethiopia conflict (1935-41) and the anti-colonial anti-fascism that responded to it across the British Empire and beyond. I was going to write a book out of it. But I don’t think…

I’ve written a new article, which should hopefully come out in the History of Human Sciences next year. In the meantime, I’ve provided the introduction below, and you can read the full draft of it here. Stuart Hall was a central figure in the formation of Britain’s “new left”, a founding force in the field of cultural…

I have written a draft of an article that seeks to address some of the criticisms of current projects to “decolonize” the British academy. I also hope the article will be a resource for those who are undertaking these projects. In Britain we suffer from a paucity of detailed investigation into our own academy; much…