World Decolonization Forum

On 2 November 1917, Britain issued the Balfour Declaration without consulting Palestine’s Arab majority or recognising their political rights. Palestinians continue their struggle for freedom. Remembering this history means recognising Britain’s colonial responsibility for shaping Palestine’s future without its people’s consent.

In Worldmaking after Empire, Adom Getachew explores how anticolonial thinkers in Africa and the Caribbean understood independence as part of a wider struggle to transform the international order. Their vision of self-determination sought to end the political and economic hierarchies that allowed colonial domination to persist beyond formal independence. Explore more recommendations on our website: decolonizationforum.org/pers…

Can therapy address suffering without confronting the structures that produce it? In his talk at Institute Social, “Pirated Therapy: Caste Distress and the Colonial Clinic,” Prof. Sushrut Jadhav questioned how Western therapeutic models imported into India can overlook caste oppression and turn social suffering into an individual problem. His discussion of political therapy connected personal distress to structures of power, placing collective solidarity and social justice at the heart of the therapeutic process.