Sackly's new book is based on the late nineteenth century. The period was when european emperial expansion reached its height. Sackly argues that in this context we have to forego the idea of a universal principle or right to self-determination. And so what i want to show is that it wasn't actually a problem of the non realization of universal principles like self determination, but the ways in which they were ready from the beginning.
Featuring Adom Getachew on the story of how decolonization struggles across the Black Atlantic tried to not only cast off European rule but also to remake the entire world system. An October 2019 episode from the archives.
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