Learning Outcomes:
- Understand and compare how various thinkers understood imperialism as a problem.
- Contextualise the thought of individual anticolonial thinkers.
- Analyse ideas through comparison and contextualisation.
- Understand the primary methodological questions at the heart of intellectual history.
- Relate historical developments in Ireland with those that occurred across the post and anticolonial world.
Indicative Module Content:
The objective of this module is to examine the myriad responses that thinkers from across the globe offered to these questions. We will examine the thought of Lenin, Gandhi, Fanon, WEB Dubois, Nkrumah, CLR James, Nasser, Khomeini, Mao and others, alongside more the more familiar protagonists of Irish history such as Roger Casement and Padraig Pearse. In reading these figures alongside one another, we will come to appreciate their ideas outside the national/ist frameworks through which they are most often understood and instead see them as thinkers of world-changing importance.