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Decolonisation in theory and practice: Recommended reading and resources

The readings and resources below provide a critical foundation from which to approach decolonisation within higher education (HE).

Whether you are new to decolonising work, unsure about its relevance to your field or already deeply invested, there is always scope for developing a deeper understanding of the key concepts, texts, debates and politics of decolonisation.

Although far from exhaustive, the readings and resources listed below provide a critical foundation from which to approach decolonisation in the context of higher education.

So far, we have focused on online resources and books, rather than individual journal articles, in order to delimit the list to some extent. However, this resource is being continually developed and updated, and will also include discipline-specific sections in time.

Please note that texts are currently listed alphabetically by authors' first names and organised into loose thematic groupings; some texts and authors will therefore appear in multiple sections or subsections, whilst others may be found in unexpected places, reflecting the unbounded nature of their ideas and of knowledge more broadly.

If you have any readings or resources that you think should be added to the list, please complete our short form below to share your recommendations.

York St John staff and students can also explore and discuss some of the key texts below by joining our new Discussing Decolonisation Reading Group.

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Anti-colonial, postcolonial and decolonial thought

Aimé Césaire (1950) 'Discourse on Colonialism' (Monthly Review Press, 2000 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Amilcar Cabral (1977) Resistance and Decolonization (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)

C.L.R. James (1963) The Black Jacobins: Toussaint Louverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Penguin, 2022)

Eduardo Galeano (1971) Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Monthly Review Press, 1997 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Frantz Fanon (1952) Black Skins, White Masks (Penguin, 2021 – available to borrow from York St John Library)

Frantz Fanon (1961) The Wretched of the Earth (Penguin, 2001 – available to borrow from York St John Library)

George Padmore, The Gold Coast Revolution: The Struggle of an African People from Slavery to Freedom (D. Dobson, 1953)

Kwame Nkrumah, Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization and Development with Particular Reference to the African Revolution (Monthly Review Press, 1964)

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Boydell & Brewer, 1986 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Steve Biko (1969–1972), I Write What I Like: Selected Writings, edited by Aelred Stubbs (University of Chicago Press, 2002)

Walter Rodney (1972) How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Verso, 2018 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Adam Shatz, The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Adom Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Princeton University Press, 2019)

Aimé Césaire, Resolutely Black: Conversations with Françoise Vergès (Polity, 2019)

Alissa Trotz (ed), The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye (Pluto, 2020)

Firoze Manji and Bill Fletcher Jr. (eds), Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amílcar Cabral (Common Notions, 2024)

Kent Worcester, C.L.R. James: A Political Biography (SUNY Press, 1995)

David Johnson (ed.), Key Texts in Anti-Colonial Thought. Book series (Edinburgh University Press, 2016)

Kevin Ochieng Okoth, Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Verso, 2023)

Leo Zeilig, Voices of Liberation: Frantz Fanon (Haymarket, 2016)

Leo Zeilig, A Revolutionary for Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story (Haymarket, 2022)

Leslie James, George Padmore and Decolonization from Below: Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the End of Empire (Palgrave, 2015)

Paul Le Blanc and Scott McLemee (eds), C.L.R. James and Revolutionary Marxism: Selected Writings of C.L.R. James 1939-1949 (Haymarket, 2018)

Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto, 2015)

Reiland Rabaka, The Negritude Movement: W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the Evolution of an Insurgent Idea (Lexington Books, 2015)

Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston, Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution (Haymarket, 2023)

Robbie Shilliam, The Black Pacific: Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections (Bloomsbury, 2015)

Sarah Irving, Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation (Pluto, 2012)

Simin Fadaee, Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics (Manchester University Press, 2024 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Negritude Women (University of Minnesota Press, 2002)

Tracey Banivanua Mar, Decolonisation and the Pacific: Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

Tsenay Serequeberhan (ed), Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral. New expanded edition (Monthly Review Press, 2023)

Achille Mbembe, On the Postcolony (University of California Press, 2001)

Aijaz Ahmad (1992), In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures (Verso, 2008)

Ania Loomba, Colonialism/Postcolonialism (Routledge, 2005)

Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin (1989), The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (Routledge, 2002)

Dipesh Chakrabarty (2000), Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. New edition (Princeton University Press, 2007)

Edward Said (1978) Orientalism (Penguin, 2019 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Edward Said (1993) Culture and Imperialism (Penguin, 2024 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Francis Barker, Peter Hulme and Margaret Iverson (eds), Colonial Discourse / Postcolonial Theory (Manchester University Press, 1996)

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, edited by Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (University of Illinois Press, 1988)

Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (Routledge, 1994)

Leela Gandhi, Postcolonial Theory: An Introduction (Columbia University Press, 1998)

Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader (Routledge, 2015)

Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (eds), Selected Subaltern Studies (Oxford University Press, 1989)

Robert J. C. Young, Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)

Rosalind Morris (ed), Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea (Columbia University Press, 2010)

Anna Bernard, Ziad Elmarsafy and Stuart Murray (eds) What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say (Routledge, 2015)

Benita Parry, Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique (Routledge, 2004)

Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks (eds) The Pre-occupation of Postcolonial Studies, with foreword by Ngugi Wa Thiong′o (Duke University Press, 2000)

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Harvard University Press, 1999)

Graham Huggan (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies (Oxford University Press, 2013)

Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Narayan (eds), European Cosmopolitanism: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Societies (Routledge, 2019)

Gurminder K. Bhambra, Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination (Palgrave, 2023)

Jini Kim Watson and Gary Wilder (eds), The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (Fordham University Press, 2018 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Neil Lazarus (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Sharae Deckard and Rashmi Varma (eds), Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique: Critical Engagements with Benita Parry (Routledge, 2018)

Vivek Chibber, Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (Verso, 2013)

Warwick Research Collective (WReC), Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature (Liverpool University Press, 2015)

Ziad Elmarsafy, Anna Bernard, David Attwell (eds), Debating Orientalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

Aníbal Quijano, Foundational Essays on the Coloniality of Power, edited by Walter D. Mignolo, Rita Segato and Catherine E. Walsh (Duke University Press, 2024)

David Myer Temin, 'A decolonial wrong turn: Walter Mignolo's epistemic politics'. Constellations (Wiley online, 2024)

Gianmaria Colpani, Jamila M. H. Mascat and Katrine Smiet (eds), 'Postcolonial Responses to Decolonial Interventions'. Special Issue of Postcolonial Studies 25(1) (Taylor & Francis, 2022)

Mabel Moraña, Enrique Dussel and Carlos A. Jáuregui (eds), Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate (Duke University Press, 2008)

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Ch'ixinakax utxiwa: On Decolonising Practices and Discourses (Polity, 2020)

Walter D. Mignolo, The Politics of Decolonial Investigations (Duke University Press, 2001 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Walter D. Mignolo, The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options (Duke University Press, 2011)

Walter D. Mignolo and Arturo Escobar (eds), Globalization and the Decolonial Option (Routledge, 2010)

Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh (eds), On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis (Duke University Press, 2018 – Ebook available from York St John University)

Zahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun (eds), Decolonial Pluriversalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

Alissa Trotz (ed.), The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye (Pluto, 2020)

Ann Stoler (2002), Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (University of California Press, 2010)

Anne Mcclintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (Routledge, 1995)

Brenna Bhandar and Rafeef Ziadah (eds), Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought (Verso, 2020)

Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo and Lourdes Torres (eds), Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Indiana University Press, 1991)

Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (Duke University Press, 2023)

Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (Verso, 2019)

Clenora Hudson-Weems (1993), Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves. Sixth Edition (Routledge, 2024)

Dilar Dirik, The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice (Pluto, 2022)

Françoise Vergès, A Decolonial Feminism (Pluto, 2021)

Gala Rexer, Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Border, and Reproductive Injustice in Israel/Palestine (UC Press, forthcoming)

Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty (eds), Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Routledge, 1997)

Katherine McKittrick, Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (University of Minnesota Press, 2006)

Kumari Jayawardena, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World (Verso, 2016)

Laura E. Donaldson, Decolonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender, and Empire-Building (University of North Carolina Press, 1992)

Maria Lugones, ‘Toward a Decolonial Feminism’. Hypatia 25(4): 742-759 (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour, with foreword by Silvia Federici (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Nadia Elia, Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism and Palestine (Pluto, 2023)

Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption (WW Norton, 2022)

Reina Lewis and Sara Mills (eds), Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader (Routledge, 2003)

Robin Riley, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Minnie Bruce Pratt (eds), Feminism and War: Confronting US Imperialism (Bloomsbury, 2013)

Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (Catapult , 2020)

Sarah Irving, Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation (Pluto, 2012)

Silvia Federici, Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons (PM Press, 2018 )

Silvia Federici (2004), Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Penguin, 2021)

Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance (Verso, 2020)

Susanne Klausen (ed.), Reproductive Justice and the Afterlife of Colonial Violence (UC Press, forthcoming)

Sylvia Tamale, Decolonization and Afro-feminism (Daraja Press, 2020)

Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso, María Lugones and Nelson Maldonado-Torres (eds), Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala: Caribbean, Meso, and South American Contributions and Challenges (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

On imperialism and colonial history

Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu, How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism (Pluto, 2015)

David Harvey, The New Imperialism (Oxford University Press, 2003)

David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital, and the Crises of Capitalism (Profile Books, 2011)

Ellen Meiksins Wood, Empire of Capital (Verso, 2005)

Eric Toussaint, The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation (Haymarket, 2019)

Eric Williams (1944), Capitalism and Slavery (Penguin, 2022)

Giovanni Arrighi, The Geometry of Imperialism: The Limits of Hobson's Paradigm (Verso, 1983)

Giovanni Arrighi (1994), The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times (Verso, 2010)

Henry Veltmeyer, Imperialism, Crisis and Class Struggle: The Enduring Verities and Contemporary Face of Capitalism – Essays in Honor of James Petras (Haymarket, 2012)

Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System, Volumes 1-V (I Wallerstein Books)

Immanuel Wallerstein, Historical Capitalism, with Capitalist Civilization (Verso, 2011)

James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer, Extractive Imperialism in the Americas: Capitalism's New Frontier (Haymarket, 2016)

John A. Hobson (1902), Imperialism: A Study (Routledge, 2018)

John Narayan and Leon Sealey-Huggins (eds), 'Whatever Happened to the Idea of Imperialism?' Special issue of Third World Quarterly 38(11) (Taylor & Francis, 2017)

John Smith, Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis (Monthly Review Press, 2016)

Kwame Nkrumah (1965), Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism (Panaf Books, 2002)

Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism (Penguin, 2015)

Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik, Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present (Monthly Review Press, 2021)

Vladimir Lenin (1917), Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Penguin, 2010)

Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire (Hatchette, 2018)

Barbara Bush, Imperialism, Race and Resistance: Africa and Britain, 1919-1945 (Routledge, 1999 – available from York St John Library)

Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter (eds), Archives of Empire: Volume I. From The East India Company to the Suez Canal (Duke University Press, 2003)

Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter (eds), Archives of Empire: Volume 2. The Scramble for Africa (Duke University Press, 2004)

Edward Said (1978) Orientalism (Penguin, 2019 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Gargi Bhattacharya, Adam Elliott-Cooper, Sita Balani, Kerem Nişancıoğlu, Kojo Koram, Dalia Gebrial, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha, Empire's Endgame (Pluto, 2021)

Jamaica Kincaid (1988), A Small Place (Daunt Books, 2018)

Kehinde Andrews, The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World (Penguin, 2022)

Kojo Koram, Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (Hodder & Stoughton, 2022)

Priyamvada Gopal, Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent (Verso, 2019)

Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston, Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution (Haymarket, 2023)

Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain (Penguin, 2021)

Sathnam Sanghera, Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe (Penguin, 2024)

Stuart Ward and Astrid Rasch (eds), Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain (Bloomsbury, 2019)

William Roger Louis, The British Empire in the Middle East 1945-1951: Arab Nationalism, the United States, and Postwar Imperialism (Oxford University Press, 1985)

Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon, Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2020)

Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States (Penguin, 2020)

David Michael Smith, Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire (Monthly Review Press, 2023)

Gerald Horne, Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic (Monthly Review Press, 2015)

Giovanni Arrighi (1994), The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times (Verso, 2010)

Grace Livingstone, America's Backyard: The United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror (Bloomsbury, 2013)

Immanuel Wallerstein, The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World (The New Press, 2003)

James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer, Power and Resistance: US Imperialism in Latin America (Haymarket, 2017)

Jodi Kim, Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries (Duke University Press, 2022)

Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (Penguin, 2004)

Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch, The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (Verso, 2013)

Sidney Lens, The Forging of the American Empire (Haymarket, 2016)

Susan Williams, White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa (C. Hurst & Co, 2021)

'US Empire 20 years after 9/11: A reading list' (Verso, 2021)

Victor G. Kiernan, America: The New Imperialism – From White Settlement to World Hegemony (Verso, 2005)

On Black radicalism and resistance

Amy Jacques Garvey, Garvey & Garveyism (Africa World Press, 1970)

Cedric Robinson (1983) Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (University of North Carolina Press, 2000 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

C.L.R. James (1960), Modern Politics (PM Press, 2013)

George Padmore (1956) Pan-Africanism or Communism? The Coming Struggle for Africa (D. Dobson, 1956 – available to borrow via WorldCat)

Hakim Adi, Pan-Africanism: A History (Bloomsbury, 2018)

Huey P. Newton (n.d.), The New Huey P. Newton Reader, edited by David Hilliard and Donald Weise (Seven Stories Press, 2019)

Kevin Ochieng Okoth, Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Verso, 2023)

Leslie James, George Padmore and Decolonization from Below Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the End of Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

Manning Marable (1983), How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society (Haymarket, 2015)

Paul Gilroy (1993) The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Verso, 2022)

Theodore G. Vincent (1971), Black Power and the Garvey Movement (Black Classics Press, 2006)

Theo Williams, Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation (Verso, 2022)

Simin Fadaee, Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics (Manchester University Press, 2024)

Walter Rodney (n.d.), The Groundings with My Brothers (Verso, 2019)

Walter Rodney (n.d.), Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution (Verso, 2022)

W. E. B. Du Bois (1920), Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (Verso, 2021)

W.E.B. Du Bois (1935), Black Reconstruction in America (Routledge, 2017)

Alice Walker (1983), In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (HarperCollins, 2023)

Angela Davis (1981), Women, Race and Class (Penguin, 2019)

Audre Lorde (1984), Sister Outsider (Penguin, 2019)

Audre Lorde (n.d.), Your Silence Will Not Protect You, with Preface by Reni Eddo-Lodge and Introduction by Sara Ahmed (Silver Press, 2017)

Barbara Smith (ed, 1983), Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. 40th Anniversary Edition (Rutgers University Press, 2023)

Barbara Smith (1998), The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom. 25th anniversary edition (Rutgers University Press, 2023)

bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Pluto, 1987 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Beverly Guy-Sheftall (ed), Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (The New Press, 1995)

Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean, Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing (Verso, 2022)

Clenora Hudson-Weems (1993), Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves. Sixth Edition (Routledge, 2024)

Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977)

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (ed), How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Haymarket, 2012)

Kimberlé Crenshaw (1991), ‘Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color’. Stanford Law Review, 43(6): 1241–1299 (Access online)

Kimberlé Crenshaw, On Intersectionality: Essential Writings (The New Press, 2017 – borrow via WorldCat)

Layli Phillips (ed), The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought (Routledge, 2007)

Nydia A Swaby, Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives (LW Books, 2024)

Patricia Hill Collins (1990), Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge, 2009)

Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption (WW Norton, 2022)

Black Women Radicals Database (BWRD)

Bianca Williams, Dian Squire and Frank Tuitt (eds), Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education (State University of New York Press, 2021)

Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (eds), Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies (Haymarket, 2023)

Donna Jean Murch, Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

Ibram X. Kendi, The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965–1972 (Palgrave, 2012)

Martha Biondi, The Black Revolution on Campus (University of California Press, 2014)

Roderick A. Ferguson, The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (University of Minnesota Press, 2012)

On contemporary racial capitalism

Donna Murch, Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives (Haymarket, 2022)

Gargi Bhattacharya, Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018 – Ebook available from YSJ Library)

Gargi Bhattacharya, The Futures of Racial Capitalism (Polity, 2024)

Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin (eds), Futures of Black Radicalism (Verso, 2017)

Ida Danewid, Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Jodi Melamed, Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)

Joshua Clover, Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings (Verso, 2019)

Kehinde Andrews, Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (Bloomsbury, 2018)

L.A. Kauffman, Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism (Verso, 2017)

Mehmet Dosemeci, The History of Disruption: Social Struggle in the Atlantic World (Verso, 2024)

Neville Alexander, Against Racial Capitalism: Selected Writings, edited by Salim Vally and Enver Motala (Pluto, 2023)

Robin D.G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Beacon Press, 2022)

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Morgan Ndlovu (eds), Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century: Living Theories and True Ideas (Routledge, 2022)

Black Radical Thought: A Verso Bookshelf (2019)

Alberto Toscano, Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis (Verso, 2023)

Alyosha Goldstein and Simón Ventura Trujillo (eds), For AntiFascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis (Common Notions, 2022)

Bill Mullen and Christopher Vials (eds), The US Antifascism Reader (Verso, 2020)

Enzo Traverso, The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right (Verso, 2019)

Ewa Majewska, Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common (Verso, 2021)

Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen, The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition (Haymarket, 2024)

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Late Capitalist Fascism (Polity, 2021)

Shane Burley (ed.), No Pasaran: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis ((AK Press, 2022)

The Zetkin Collective and Andreas Malm, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism (Verso, 2021)

Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons (eds), Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism (PM Press, 2024)

On settler-colonialism and indigenous struggle

Adam Kirsch, On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice (WW Norton, 2024)

Annie Coombes (ed), Rethinking Settler Colonialism: History and Memory in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and South Africa (Manchester University Press, 2006)

Catherine Besteman, Militarized Global Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2021)

Edward Cavanagh and Lorenzo Veracini (eds), The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism (Routledge, 2017)

Gerald Horne, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean (Monthly Review Press, 2018)

Lorenzo Veracini, The World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism as a Political Idea (Verso, 2021)

Lorenzo Veracini, Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (Palgrave, 2023)

Patrick Wolfe, Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race (Verso, 2016)

Sai Englert, Settler Colonialism: An Introduction (Pluto, 2022)

Susan Slyomovics and Lorenzo Veracini (eds), Race, Place, Trace: Essays in Honour of Patrick Wolfe (Verso, 2022)

Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List by Haymarket Books

Ahmad H. Sa'di and Nur Masalha (eds), Decolonizing the Study of Palestine: Indigenous Perspectives and Settler Colonialism after Elia Zureik (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Brendan Hokowhitu, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, Chris Andersen and Steve Larkin (eds), Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies (Routledge, 2021)

David Correia, An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents over Three Centuries (Haymarket, 2022)

Francis Dupuis-Déri and Benjamin Pillet (eds), Anarcho-Indigenism: Conversations on Land and Freedom (Pluto, 2023)

Glen Sean Coulthard, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)

Julie Evans, Patricia Grimshaw and David Phillips, Equal Subjects, Unequal Rights: Indigenous People in British Settler Colonies, 1830-1910 (Manchester University Press, 2003)

Morgan Ndlovu, Performing Indigeneity: Spectacles of Culture and Identity in Coloniality (Pluto, 2019)

Nur Masalha and Lisa Isherwood (eds), Theologies of Liberation in Palestine-Israel: Indigenous, Contextual, and Postcolonial Perspectives (The Lutterworth Press, 2014)

Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future (Broadleaf Books, 2022)

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2015)

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (Beacon Press, 2021)

Steven Salaita, Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine (University of Minnesota Press, 2016)

Sylvia Tamale, Decolonization and Afro-feminism (Daraja Press, 2020)

Teodora Todorova, Decolonial Solidarity in Palestine-Israel: Settler Colonialism and Resistance from Within (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Tracey Banivanua Mar, Decolonisation and the Pacific: Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

'Using Indigeneity in the Struggle for Palestinian Liberation' (Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network, 2019)

On Palestine

Andreas Malm, The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth (Verso, 2024)

Bernard Regan, The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine (Verso, 2017)

Nadim Bawalsa, Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948 (Stanford University Press, 2022)

Nur Masalha, Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History (Bloomsbury, 2018)

Philip Marfleet, Palestine, Imperialism, and the Struggle for Freedom (Calton Books, 2025)

Rashid Khalidi, The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (Oneworld, 2015)

Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Metropolitan Books, 2020)

Rory Miller (ed), Britain, Palestine and Empire: The Mandate Years (Routledge, 2010)

Andy Clarno, Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994 (University of Chicago Press, 2017)

Avi Shlaim, Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations (Verso, 2010)

Edward Said (1992), The Question of Palestine (Ftizcarraldo, 2024)

Ghada Karmi, One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel (Pluto, 2023)

Haider Eid, Decolonising the Palestinian Mind (LeftWord Books, 2023)

Ilan Pappé (ed), Israel and South Africa: The Many Faces of Apartheid (Bloomsbury, 2015)

Ilan Pappé, The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge (Verso, 2016)

Ilan Pappé, The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of Gaza and the Occupied Territories (Oneworld, 2019)

Jeff Halper, Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State (Pluto, 2021)

Mark Zeitoun, Power and Water in the Middle East: The Hidden Politics of the Palestinian-Israeli Water Conflict (Bloomsbury, 2008)

Maya Wind, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (Verso, 2024)

Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé, On Palestine (Haymarket Books, 2015)

Rebecca Ruth Gould, Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom (Verso, 2023)

Richard Becker, Palestine, Israel, and U.S. Empire - Second Edition (1804 Books, 2024)

Sean Jacobs and Jon Soske (eds), Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy (Haymarket, 2015)

Sumaya Awad and brian bean (eds), Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (Haymarket, 2020)

Teodora Todorova, Decolonial Solidarity in Palestine-Israel: Settler Colonialism and Resistance from Within (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: From Ferguson to Palestine (Haymarket Books, 2016)

Edward Said, The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994 (Vintage Books, 1995)

Ghassan Andoni, Huwaida Arraf, Nicholas Blincoe, Hussein Khalili, Marissa McLaughlin, Radhika Sainath and Josie Sandercock (eds), Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement (Verso, 2023)

Ghassan Kanafani (n.d.), Selected Political Writings, edited by Louis Brehony and Tahrir Hamdi (Pluto, 2024)

Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing and Mike Merryman-Lotze (eds), Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire (Haymarket, 2022)

Jennifer Lynn Kelly, Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine (Duke University Press, 2023)

Katherine Natanel and Ilan Pappé (eds), Palestine in a World on Fire (Haymarket, 2024)

Mahdi Sabbagh (ed), Their Borders, Our World: Building New Solidarities with Palestine (Haymarket, 2024)

Michael R. Fischbach, Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color (Stanford University Press, 2018)

Omar Barghouti, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Haymarket, 2011)

Rich Wiles (ed), Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (Pluto, 2013)

Shourideh C. Molavi, Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance (Pluto, 2024)

Zahi Anbra Zalloua, Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Decolonize Palestine reading list

Free Palestine! A reading list by Haymarket Books

Free Palestine: A Verso reading list

Palestinian Feminist Collective reading list

Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) resources

On colonialism, capitalism and climate

Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2022)

Christian Parenti, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (Bold Type Books, 2011)

Daniel Faber, Environment under Fire: Imperialism and the Ecological Crisis in Central America (Monthly Review Press, 1993)

David Correia and Tyler Wall, Violent Order: Essays on the Nature of Police (Haymarket, 2021)

Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright, Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future (Verso 2017)

Jason W. Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Verso, 2015)

John Bellamy Foster, Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature (Monthly Review Press, 2000)

John Bellamy Foster, The Dialectics of Ecology: Socialism and Nature (Monthly Review Press, 2024)

Kohei Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Leilani Nishime and Kim D. Hester Williams (eds), Racial Ecologies (University of Washington Press, 2018)

Nancy Fraser, Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It (Verso, 2022)

Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Simon & Schuster, 2015)

Neil Smith, Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space (Verso, 2010)

Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard University Press, 2013)

Ståle Holgersen, Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World (Verso, 2024)

Stefania Barca, Workers of the Earth: Labour, Ecology and Reproduction in the Age of Climate Change (Pluto, 2024)

Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Verso, 2023)

Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen, The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism (Verso, 2021)

'Capitalism won't save the planet', Verso reading list

'Climate & Capitalism' blog series, Monthly Review Press

Andrew Baldwin, The Other of Climate Change: Racial Futurism, Migration, Humanism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

Farhana Sultana (ed), Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice (Routledge, 2024)

Françoise Vergès, Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism (Goldsmiths Press, 2024)

Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell, Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region (Pluto, 2023)

Jeremy Williams and Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, Climate Change Is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice (Icon Books, 2021 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Kohei Saito, Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto (Astra House, 2024)

Leon Sealey-Huggins (2018), ‘The climate crisis is a racist crisis: Structural racism, inequality and climate change’. In The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence, edited by Azeezat Johnson, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Beth Kamunge, pp. 99-113 (Zed Books, 2018) – chapter PDF (1MB)

Malcom Ferdinand, Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World (Polity, 2021)

Matthew T. Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet (Verso, 2022)

Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan and Andrea Vetter, The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism (Verso, 2022)

Michael Löwy, Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe (Haymarket, 2015)

Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin, Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet, edited by C.J. Polychroniou (Verso, 2020)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Reconsidering Reparations (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Vandana Shiva and Maria Mies, Ecofeminism (Bloomsbury, 2014)

Ailton Krenak, Ancestral Future (Polity, 2024)

Ashley Dawson, Environmentalism from Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet (Haymarket, 2024)

Ashley Dawson, Fiore Longo, and Survival International (eds), Decolonize Conservation: Global Voices for Indigenous Self-Determination, Land, and a World in Common (Common Notions, 2023)

Brian Burkhart, Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land: A Trickster Methodology for Decolonizing Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Futures (Michigan State University Press, 2019)

Dina Gilio-Whitaker, As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock (Beacon Press, 2019)

Katrina M. Phillips, Indigenous Environmentalism: Honoring Our Relationships and Responsibilities with Nature (Lerner Books, 2024)

Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2021)

Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (Verso, 2019)

The Red Nation, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (Common Notions, 2021)

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Milkweed, 2015)

Vandana Shiva, Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Indigenous Wisdom, and the Rights of Mother Earth (Synergetic Press, 2020)

On 'race', racism and anti-racism

Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe, Heart Of The Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain (Verso, 2018)

Cornel West, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller and Kendall Thomas (eds), Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement (The New Press, 1995)

Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield and Jennifer Sutton (eds), Global White Nationalism: From Apartheid to Trump (Manchester University Press, 2020)

Elizabeth Fekete, Europe's Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right (Verso, 2018)

Jennifer C. Pan, Selling Social Justice: Why the Rich Love Antiracism (Verso, 2025)

Kalwant Bhopal, White Privilege: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society (Policy Press, 2018)

Kalwant Bhopal, Race and Education: Reproducing White Supremacy in Britain (Penguin, 2024)

Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (Verso, 2014)

Kehinde Andrews, The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World (Penguin, 2023)

Kehinde Andrews, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Annabel Wilson, Blackness at the Intersection (Bloomsbury, 2024 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Kennetta Hammond Perry, London Is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Kojo Koram, The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line (Pluto, 2019)

Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley, Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics (Pluto, 2022)

Robbie Shilliam, Race and the Undeserving Poor: From Abolition to Brexit (Columbia University Press, 2018)

Stuart Hall (n.d.), Selected Writings on Race and Difference, edited by Paul Gilroy and Ruth Gilmore (Duke University Press, 2021)

Arun Kundnani, The Muslims Are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror (Verso, 2015)

Christine Achinger and Robert Fine (eds), Antisemitism, Racism and Islamophobia: Distorted Faces of Modernity (Routledge, 2017)

Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: 20 years after 9/11 (Verso, 2021)

Edward Said (1981), Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. Revised edition (Penguin, 1997)

Jin Haritaworn, Queer Lovers and Hateful Others: Regenerating Violent Times and Places (Pluto, 2015)

Laurens de Rooij, Islam in British Media Discourses: Understanding Perceptions of Muslims in the News (Manchester University Press, 2020)

Liz Fekete, A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe (Pluto, 2009)

Sherene H. Razack, Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism (University of Minnesota Press, 2022)

Steven Salaita, Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where It Comes from and What It Means for Politics Today (Pluto, 2006)

S. Sayyid, A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism (Zed Books, 2015)

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia (Pluto, 2022)

Fight Islamophobia! Reading List by Pluto Press

Ambavalan Sivanandan, A Different Hunger: Writings on Black Resistance (Pluto, 1991)

Ambavalan Sivanandan, Communities of Resistance: Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism (Verso, 2019)

Arun Kundnani (2023), What is Anti-Racism? And Why it Means Anti-Capitalism (Verso, 2023)

Azfar Shafi and Ilyas Nagdee (2022), Race to the Bottom: Reclaiming Antiracism (Pluto, 2022 – Ebook available via York St John Library)

bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism (Macmillan, 1996)

Cedric G. Johnson, The Panthers Can't Save Us Now: Debating Left Politics and Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2022)

Ibram X. Kendi, How To Be an Antiracist (Penguin, 2023)

Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race (Seal Press, 2019)

James Baldwin (1963), The Fire Next Time (Penguin, 2024)

Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen, The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition (Haymarket, 2024)

John Narayan (ed.), ‘New Circuits of Anti-Racism', Special Issue of Race & Class 65(1) (Open Access)

Joshua Virasami (ed), A World Without Racism: Building Antiracist Futures (Pluto, 2024)

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2016 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (Minor Compositions, 2013)

'Shake! the System Research Report: A Decade of Shaping Change 2010-2020' (Voices that Shake!, 2020 – PDF, 5.9 MB)

On abolition and the carceral system

Abolitionist Futures online resources

Andrea J Ritchie, Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (AK Press, 2023)

Angela Davis, Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons and Torture (Seven Stories Press, 2005)

Angela Davis, Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises – Volume 1 (Haymarket, 2024)

Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie, Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Penguin, 2022)

Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean, Abolition Revolution (Pluto, 2022)

Donna Murch, Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives (Haymarket, 2022)

Koshka Duff (ed), Abolishing the Police (Dog Section Press, 2021)

H.L.T. Quan, Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living (Pluto, 2024)

Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Haymarket, 2021)

Marquis Bey and Jesse A. Goldberg (eds), Queer Fire: Liberation and Abolition. Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies special issue, 28(2) (Duke University Press, 2022)

Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché, How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment, with foreword by Mariama Kaba (Haymarket, 2024)

Ray Acheson, Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages (Haymarket, 2022)

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Change Everything: Racial Justice and the Case for Abolition (Haymarket, 2021)

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Verso, 2023)

Zillah Eisenstein, Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution (Monthly Review Press, 2019)

Interrupting Criminalization online resources

Adam Elliot-Cooper, Black Resistance to British Policing (Manchester University Press, 2021)

Alex Vitale, The End of Policing (Verso, 2017)

Andrea Ritchie, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Beacon Press, 2017 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Angela Davis, If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance (Verso, 2016)

Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (Seven Stories Press, 2003)

Cedric G. Johnson, After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle (Verso, 2023)

Daniel Brückenhaus, Policing Transnational Protest: Liberal Imperialism and the Surveillance of Anticolonialists in Europe, 1905–1945 (Oxford University Press, 2017)

David Correia and Tyler Wall, Violent Order: Essays on the Nature of Police (Haymarket, 2021)

Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete (Verso, 2021)

Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext, 2018)

Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton (eds), Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016)

Kamau Franklin, Micah Herskind and Mariah Parker (eds), No Cop City, No Cop World Lessons from the Movement (Haymarket, 2025)

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2016 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Koshka Duff (ed), Abolishing the Police (Dog Section Press, 2021)

Leah Cowan, Why Would Feminists Trust the Police? A Tangled History of Resistance and Complicity (Verso, 2024)

Lesley J. Wood, Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing (Pluto, 2014)

Marc Lamont Hill, We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility (Haymarket, 2020)

Michelle Alexander (2010), The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness (Penguin, 2019)

Orisanmi Burton, Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt (University of California Press, 2023)

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press, 2007)

Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke and Brian Roberts, Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order (Bloomsbury, 2013)

The Monitoring Group

Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke de Noronha, Against Borders: The Case for Abolition (Verso, 2022)

Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (Haymarket, 2021)

Justin Akers Chacón, The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the US-Mexico Border (Haymarket, 2021)

Kanishka Chowdhury, Border Rules: An Abolitionist Refusal (Palgrave, 2023)

Martina Tazziolio, Border Abolitionism: Migrants' Containment and the Genealogies of Struggles and Rescue (Manchester University Press, 2023)

Maya Goodfellow, Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats (Verso, 2019)

Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi and Coline Schupfer (eds), Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (Haymarket, 2024)

Nadine El-Enany, Bordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire (Manchester University Press, 2020)

Reece Jones, Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move (Verso, 2017)

Sara Riva, Simon Campbell, Brian Whitener and Kathryn Medien (eds), Border Abolition Now (Pluto, 2024)

Silky Shah, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition (Haymarket, 2024)

Todd Miller, Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border around the World (Verso, 2019)

Abolish ICE! A Verso reading list

European Digital Rights Network, ‘How to fight Biometric Mass Surveillance after the AI Act: A legal and practical guide’. EDRN online report, 27 May 2024.

Laura Loyola-Hernández, Toni Lee and Carys Coleman (2024) ‘Profit Before People: Expansion of biometric policing technology in the UK’. The Racial Justice Network and Yorkshire Resists (PDF report)

Mizue Aizeki, Laura Bingham and Santiago Narváez, The Everywhere Border: Digital Migration Control Infrastructure in the Americas (Surveillance Resistance Lab Report, 2025 – PDF, 1.51MB)

Statewatch, Automating Authority: Artificial Intelligence in European Police and Border Regimes (Online report, 2025)

Pete Fussey and Daragh Murray, Facial Recognition Surveillance: Policing and Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2025)

Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (St Martin's Press, 2018)

The Digital Hostile Environment, Migrants Rights Network project (Access online)

Abigail Boggs, Eli Meyerhoff, Nick Mitchell and Zach Schwartz-Weinstein, Abolitionist University Studies: An Invitation (PDF, 328kB)

Chris Cunneen, Antje Deckert, Amanda Porter, Juan Tauri and Robert Webb (eds), The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice (Routledge, 2023)

Eli Meyerhoff, Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)

Martin Eve and Lou Dear (eds), 'Special Collection: The Abolition of the University' (Open Library of Humanities, 2021)

Micah Herskind and Lucien Baskin, ‘Abolition and Universities’ resource guide (Access online)

Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira (eds), The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)

Prevent Watch, Liberty and Amnesty UK, ‘Know Your Rights: "Prevent" in Universities’ (Amnesty, 2024 – online)

Abolition University

Cops Off Campus Coalition

Demilitarise Education

The Free Black University

Off University

Unis Resist Border Controls

On decolonisation and technology

AI Colonialism, MIT Technology Review series (MIT Tech Review, 2023)

Abeba Birhane (2020), ‘Algorithmic Colonisation of Africa’. Script-ed: A Journal of Law, Techology and Society 17(2) (Open Access)

James Muldoon and Boxy A. Wu (2023), ‘Artificial Intelligence in the Colonial Matrix of Power’. Philosophy & Technology, 36(80) (Open access)

Jasmina Tacheva and Srividya Ramasubramanian (2023), ‘AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI’s global order’. Big Data & Society, 10(2) (Open access)

Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (Yale University Press, 2022)

Nelson Colón Vargas (2025), ‘Exploiting the margin: How capitalism fuels AI at the expense of minoritized groups’. AI Ethics 5, 1871–1876 (Open access)

Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias (2018), ‘Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject’. Television & New Media, 20(4): 336-349 (Access online)

Salvador Santino F. Regilme (2024), ‘Artificial Intelligence Colonialism: Environmental Damage, Labor Exploitation, and Human Rights Crises in the Global South’. SAIS Review of International Affairs 44(2): 75-92 (Project MUSE).

Stephen Cave and Kanta Dihal (eds), Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine (Hachette, 2023)

Dan McQuillan, Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence (Bristol University Press, 2022)

Matteo Pasquinelli, The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (Pluto, 2023)

Masoumeh Iran Mansouri and David J. Bailey (2025), ‘How to be “anti-AI” in the 21st century: Overcoming the inevitability narrative’. Global Political Economy (Online first)

Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni, Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis (Verso, 2025)

Phoebe Moore and Jamie Woodcock (eds), Augmented Exploitation: Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work (Pluto Press, 2021)

John Preston, Artificial Intelligence in the Capitalist University: Academic Labour, Commodification, and Value (Routledge, 2022)

Michalinos Zembylas (2021), ‘A decolonial approach to AI in higher education teaching and learning: Strategies for undoing the ethics of digital neocolonialism’. Learning, Media and Technology, 48(1), 25–37 (Access online)

Rachel Adams (2021), ‘Can artificial intelligence be decolonized?’ Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 46(1–2):176–197 (Access online)

Selena Nemorin (2024), ‘Towards decolonising the ethics of AI in education’. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1–13 (Access online)

Decolonisation in Higher Education (HE)

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Decolonising the University: The Challenge of Deep Cognitive Justice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017)

Brian Kwoba, Roseanne Chantiluke and Athinangamso Nkopo (eds), Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire (Bloomsbury, 2018)

Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (2012) 'Decolonisation is not a metaphor', Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society 1(1), 1-40 (Open access)

Gurminder Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial and Kerem Nişancıoğlu (eds), Decolonising the University (Pluto, 2018 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Jess Crilly and Regina Everitt (eds), Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries (Facet Publishing, 2022 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Jonathan D. Jansen and Cyrill A. Walters (eds), The Decolonization of Knowledge: Radical Ideas and the Shaping of Institutions in South Africa and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Joseph Mbembe, A. (2016). ‘Decolonizing the university: New directions’. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 15(1): 29-45 (Access online)

Oscar Koopman and Karen J. Koopman, Decolonizing the South African University: Towards Curriculum as Self Authentication (Palgrave, 2023)

Maya Wind, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (Verso, 2024)

Nancy Tamimi, Hala Khalawi, Mariama A. Jallow et al. (2024), ‘Towards decolonising higher education: A case study from a UK university’. Higher Education 88: 815–837 (Open access)

Priyamvada Gopal (2021) 'Decolonisation and the University', Textual Practice 35(6), 873-899 (Open access)

Ramón Grosfoguel, Roberto Hernández and Ernesto Rosen Velásquez (eds), Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)

Azeezat Johnson, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Beth Kamunge (eds), The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence (Zed Books, 2018)

Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally (eds), The University and Social Justice: Struggles Across the Globe (Pluto, 2020 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Critical Race Theory collective (CRTc), 'Cultivating collective praxis for scholarly transformation and racial justice’', Special Issue of Education for Information 38 (2022): 275-287 (Open Access)

Jason Arday and Heidi Safia Mirza, Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy (Palgrave, 2018)

Kalwant Bhopal and Martin Myers, Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege: Exploring Race and Class in Global Educational Economies (Routledge 2023)

Katy P. Sian, Navigating Institutional Racism in British Universities (Springer, 2019 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Remi Joseph-Salisbury & Laura Connelly, Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism (Manchester University Press, 2022 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Sara Ahmed, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (Duke University Press, 2012)

Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Eduardo Mendieta, Decolonizing Epistemologies: Latina/o Theology and Philosophy (Fordham University Press, 2011)

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism (Verso, 2019)

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South (Duke University Press, 2018)

George J. Sefa Dei and Arlo Kempf (series editors), Anti-Colonialism and Education: The Politics of Resistance (Brill, 2006)

Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory (Polity, 2021 – Ebook available)

James Muldoon and Boxi A Wu (2023), ‘Artificial Intelligence in the Colonial Matrix of Power’. Philosophy & Technology, 36(80), 1-24 (Open access)

Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo, African Epistemologies in Higher Education Research (Routledge, 2024)

Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (Bloomsbury, 2021 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1986), Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (James Curry, 1986 — Ebook available from York St John Library)

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (2022), Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously (C. Hurst and Company, 2022 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Siphamandla Zondi (eds), Decolonizing the University, Knowledge Systems and Disciplines in Africa (Carolina Academic Press, 2016)

BERA Guide to Decolonising the Curriculum

Charlotte Beyer (ed), Decolonising the Literature Curriculum (Springer, 2022 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Marlon Lee Moncrieffe, Decolonising the History Curriculum: Euro-centrism and Primary Schooling (Palgrave, 2020)

Marlon Lee Moncrieffe (ed), Decolonising Curriculum Knowledge: International Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Approaches (Springer, 2022)

Polity Press 'Decolonizing the Curriculum' book series (Polity Press, 2020-25):

Ali Meghji, Decolonizing Sociology: An Introduction (2020)
Robbie Shilliam, Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction (2021)
Sarah A. Radcliffe, Decolonizing Geography: An Introduction (2022)
Anna Bernard, Decolonizing Literature: An Introduction (2023)
Soumhya Venkatesan, Decolonizing Anthropology: An Introduction (2024)
Carolina Alves, Devika Dutt, Surbhi Kesar and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction (2025)

Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally (eds), Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements History's Schools (Routledge, 2018)

bell hooks (1994) Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Routledge, 2014)

Clelia O. Rodríguez and Josephine Gabi (eds), Who Are You Without Colonialism? Pedagogies of Liberation (Information Age Publishing, 2023)

Douglas Bourn and Massimiliano Tarozzi, Pedagogy of Hope for Global Social Justice: Sustainable Futures for People and the Planet (Bloomsbury, 2023)

D. Tran, Decolonizing University Teaching and Learning: An Entry Model for Grappling with Complexities (Bloomsbury, 2021 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

George Jerry Sefa Dei and Meredith Lordan (eds), Anti-Colonial Theory and Decolonial Praxis (Peter Lang, 2016)

Henry A. Giroux, Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope: Theory, Culture, and Schooling – A Critical Reader (Routledge, 2019)

Henry A. Giroux, Pedagogy of Resistance: Against Manufactured Ignorance (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard, Stefan Bengtsson and Martin Hauberg-Lund Laugesen, Dark Pedagogy: Education, Horror and the Anthropocene (Palgrave, 2019)

Jennifer Atkinson and Sarah Jaquette Ray (eds), The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World (University of California Press, 2024 – Ebook available from York St John Library)

Kate Schick and Claire Timperley (eds), Subversive Pedagogies: Radical Possibility in the Academy (Routledge, 2022)

Paulo Freire (1970), Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Penguin, 2017)

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Paulo Freire, Ana Maria Araújo Freire and Walter de Oliveira, Pedagogy of Solidarity (Routledge, 2016)

Robert H. Haworth, Anarchist Pedagogies: Collective Actions, Theories, and Critical Reflections on Education (PM Press, 2012)

Sara Carpenter and Shahrzad Mojab, Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge (Pluto, 2017)

Jacqueline M. Quinless, Decolonizing Data: Unsettling Conversations about Social Research Methods (University of Toronto Press, 2022)

Kate McCoy, Eve Tuck and Marcia McKenzie (eds), Land Education: Rethinking Pedagogies of Place from Indigenous, Postcolonial, and Decolonizing Perspectives (Routledge, 2016)

Linda Tuhiwai, Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (eds), Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education: Mapping the Long View (Routledge, 2019)

Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts. Second Edition (University of Toronto Press, 2021)

Shawn Wilson, Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods (Fernwood, 2008)

Special Issue: Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, Vol. 1. Issue no. 1 (2012)