Priyamvada Gopal
Biographic Data
| ID | 541162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Priyamvada Gopal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Priyamvada |
| FAMILY NAME | Gopal |
| SIGNATURE | GOPAL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Decolonizing Britain
Beginning in January 2021, Twentieth Century British History asked a group of scholars to reflect on what decolonization means to the field of British history. Twentieth Century British History co-editor Erik Linstrum (University of Virginia) posed questions over email for three rounds of discussion which concluded in December 2021. Stuart Ward (University of Copenhagen), Vanessa Ogle (University of California, Berkeley), and Saima Nasar (Univers…
Cartographies of resistance
On Decolonisation and the University
Is ‘decolonisation’ relevant at all to the university situated in Britain and other former colonial centres? Answering broadly in the affirmative, this essay situates the project of ‘decolonising’ the metropolitan university within a wider historical and intellectual context while delineating some of the key questions such an endeavour might grapple with. It argues that ‘Western’ universities can lead the increasingly vital task of historical sel…
The afterlife of insurgency
In times when league tables, metrics and rankings threaten to determine our writing and thinking, real intellectual engagement is vital and much to be appreciated. My thanks to the editors of Ident
Redressing anti-imperial amnesia
Discussing the essence of reparative history, the author articulates the need to go beyond an examination of the impact of colonialism (for good or ill) or a simplistic inclusion of cultural minorities into the national story. Instead she urges an examination of the agency and influence of peripheries' struggles - rebellions and resistance in the colonies - such as the Haitian revolution, the Sepoy Mutiny, the Morant Bay Uprising, the Urabi Revol…
Renegade Prophets and Native Acolytes
Critical discussions of colonialism as a contemporary formation driven by the militarized expansion of the US’s spheres of influence tend to focus on formations understood to be right wing or ‘neo-conservative’ in nature. Yet what has been resurgent in Anglo-American discourse on empire is not so much conservatism as a ‘liberal fundamentalism’ that calls for a return to the specifically European roots of liberalism. This chapter examines how Sept…
Concerning Maoism
This essay assesses the translatability, across historical contexts, of Frantz Fanon's iconic theory of revolutionary violence. It examines Fanon's work through the prism of the Maoist insurgency in India alongside relevant writings by Arundhati Roy and K. Balagopal
Speaking with Difficulty
Speaking with Difficulty: Feminismand Antiracism inBritain after 9\îî Pnyamvada Gopal A few years ago, an undergraduate came to see me about his final year dissertation. One of very few young British Asian men reading English at Cambridge University, he was immersed in our postcolo nial literature option, telling me how compelling and challenging this journey back to where his family "had come from" had been. But he now wanted to change his disse…
How Universities Die
In June 2011, A. C. Grayling, a professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College London and a familiar figure in British left-liberal circles, unleashed a firestorm of controversy when he announced the formation of Britain's first fully private and for-profit liberal arts institution, the New College of the Humanities, with himself and a roster of celebrity academics, many based in the United States, at its helm. The new institution-in which Grayling …
On Decolonisation and the University
Is ‘decolonisation’ relevant at all to the university situated in Britain and other former colonial centres? Answering broadly in the affirmative, this essay situates the project of ‘decolonising’ the metropolitan university within a wider historical and intellectual context while delineating some of the key questions such an endeavour might grapple with. It argues that ‘Western’ universities can lead the increasingly vital task of historical sel…
Redressing anti-imperial amnesia
Discussing the essence of reparative history, the author articulates the need to go beyond an examination of the impact of colonialism (for good or ill) or a simplistic inclusion of cultural minorities into the national story. Instead she urges an examination of the agency and influence of peripheries' struggles - rebellions and resistance in the colonies - such as the Haitian revolution, the Sepoy Mutiny, the Morant Bay Uprising, the Urabi Revol…
Concerning Maoism
This essay assesses the translatability, across historical contexts, of Frantz Fanon's iconic theory of revolutionary violence. It examines Fanon's work through the prism of the Maoist insurgency in India alongside relevant writings by Arundhati Roy and K. Balagopal
Decolonizing Britain
Beginning in January 2021, Twentieth Century British History asked a group of scholars to reflect on what decolonization means to the field of British history. Twentieth Century British History co-editor Erik Linstrum (University of Virginia) posed questions over email for three rounds of discussion which concluded in December 2021. Stuart Ward (University of Copenhagen), Vanessa Ogle (University of California, Berkeley), and Saima Nasar (Univers…
Speaking with Difficulty
Speaking with Difficulty: Feminismand Antiracism inBritain after 9\îî Pnyamvada Gopal A few years ago, an undergraduate came to see me about his final year dissertation. One of very few young British Asian men reading English at Cambridge University, he was immersed in our postcolo nial literature option, telling me how compelling and challenging this journey back to where his family "had come from" had been. But he now wanted to change his disse…
How Universities Die
In June 2011, A. C. Grayling, a professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College London and a familiar figure in British left-liberal circles, unleashed a firestorm of controversy when he announced the formation of Britain's first fully private and for-profit liberal arts institution, the New College of the Humanities, with himself and a roster of celebrity academics, many based in the United States, at its helm. The new institution-in which Grayling …
Renegade Prophets and Native Acolytes
Critical discussions of colonialism as a contemporary formation driven by the militarized expansion of the US’s spheres of influence tend to focus on formations understood to be right wing or ‘neo-conservative’ in nature. Yet what has been resurgent in Anglo-American discourse on empire is not so much conservatism as a ‘liberal fundamentalism’ that calls for a return to the specifically European roots of liberalism. This chapter examines how Sept…
Concerning Maoism
This essay assesses the translatability, across historical contexts, of Frantz Fanon's iconic theory of revolutionary violence. It examines Fanon's work through the prism of the Maoist insurgency in India alongside relevant writings by Arundhati Roy and K. Balagopal
Speaking with Difficulty
Speaking with Difficulty: Feminismand Antiracism inBritain after 9\îî Pnyamvada Gopal A few years ago, an undergraduate came to see me about his final year dissertation. One of very few young British Asian men reading English at Cambridge University, he was immersed in our postcolo nial literature option, telling me how compelling and challenging this journey back to where his family "had come from" had been. But he now wanted to change his disse…
Redressing anti-imperial amnesia
Discussing the essence of reparative history, the author articulates the need to go beyond an examination of the impact of colonialism (for good or ill) or a simplistic inclusion of cultural minorities into the national story. Instead she urges an examination of the agency and influence of peripheries' struggles - rebellions and resistance in the colonies - such as the Haitian revolution, the Sepoy Mutiny, the Morant Bay Uprising, the Urabi Revol…
The afterlife of insurgency
In times when league tables, metrics and rankings threaten to determine our writing and thinking, real intellectual engagement is vital and much to be appreciated. My thanks to the editors of Ident
Cartographies of resistance
On Decolonisation and the University
Is ‘decolonisation’ relevant at all to the university situated in Britain and other former colonial centres? Answering broadly in the affirmative, this essay situates the project of ‘decolonising’ the metropolitan university within a wider historical and intellectual context while delineating some of the key questions such an endeavour might grapple with. It argues that ‘Western’ universities can lead the increasingly vital task of historical sel…
Decolonizing Britain
Beginning in January 2021, Twentieth Century British History asked a group of scholars to reflect on what decolonization means to the field of British history. Twentieth Century British History co-editor Erik Linstrum (University of Virginia) posed questions over email for three rounds of discussion which concluded in December 2021. Stuart Ward (University of Copenhagen), Vanessa Ogle (University of California, Berkeley), and Saima Nasar (Univers…
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Decolonization (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Australian History and Society (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)