This episode of the dig is brought t you by our listeners who support us at petrie and dot com. I want to turn to the history of colonized countries struggling to seize real power amid decolonization. Phenomenal world has featured many excellent dig gests, like tim barker, melinda cooper, femi tiwo, danello gabore and isabella waber. Visit phenomenal world dot org and subscribe to get their original articles and their weekly news letters of relevant research and writing.
Featuring Kojo Koram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. How neoliberalism reorganized colonial capitalist plunder to survive the Third Worldist challenge, and then boomeranged back into the British metropole—a history obscured by rendering “decolonization” into a symbolic culture war battle.
Check out How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT by Elena Conis hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elena-conis/how-to-sell-a-poison/9781645036753/
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