Disclosing the Problem of Empire in Du Bois’s Political Thought
Zoom Info: https://uci.zoom.us/j/96478128321
About the talk:
Du Bois’s understanding of the modern world order as founded on the linked phenomena
of racial hierarchy, imperial domination, and capitalist exploitation constituted
a radical challenge to the dominant conception of an international community of free
and equal sovereign nations. Drawing on recent work with Jennifer Pitts, this talk
reconstructs Du Bois’s "strategies of disclosure” —the analytic and rhetorical tools—he
employed to surface the problem of empire in international thought.
About the speaker:
Adom Getachew is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science, University
of Chicago, and prize-winning author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2020 Princeton).
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