Exploitation vs Appropriation: Why a Theoretical Reconstruction of Capitalism Matters
Published: 18 March 2019
24 April 2019
You are warmly invited to attend a talk by Professor Gurminder K. Bhambra (Professor of Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex) on 'Exploitation vs Appropriation: Why a Theoretical Reconstruction of Capitalism Matters'. This talk will take place on Wednesday 24 April, 17.00, in the Yudowitz Seminar Room , Wolfson Medical School Building.
Professor Bhambra is a world-leading scholar who has written widely on postcolonial and decolonial theory, citizenship, modernity, and global history. Her first monograph, Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination (Palgrave, 2007), won the 2008 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for best first book in sociology. She has co-edited five collections, including Silencing Human Rights (with Robbie Shilliam, Palgrave, 2009) and Decolonising the University (with Dalia Gebrial and Kerem Nisancioglu, Pluto Press, 2018). She is Series Editor of the Theory for a Global Age series, and, in 2015, she set up the Global Social Theory website to support students and academics interested in social theory in global perspective. She is also co-editor of the online magazine, Discover Society and Trustee at the Sociological Review Foundation.
The event is hosted by the Glasgow Global History Cluster.
First published: 18 March 2019