Gurminder K. Bhambra

Gurminder K Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex and President of the British Sociological Association. The themes of this article are developed further in her British Journal of Sociology annual lecture, available open access here

Colonial taxes built Britain. That must be taught in lessons on Empire

UK government ministers want the British Empire's benefits taught in schools. Don’t let them ignore the death and destruction it inflicted

By Gurminder K. Bhambra

/ 1 Apr 2022

Colonial taxes built Britain. That must be taught in lessons on Empire

Brexit, the Commonwealth, and exclusionary citizenship

Brexit is the second time Britain has moved to strip citizenship rights from many of its existing citizens.

By Gurminder K. Bhambra

/ 8 Dec 2016

Capitalist dispossession and new justifications of slavery

Discussions of migration are becoming increasingly dystopian. Based upon either exclusion or exploitation, new neoliberal arguments for open borders are not about freedom, but institutionalised domination.

By John Holmwood and Gurminder K. Bhambra

/ 3 Jul 2015

Capitalist dispossession and new justifications of slavery

By John Holmwood and Gurminder K. Bhambra

/ 3 Jul 2015