Prof Bhambra to talk about ‘The Colonial Context of National Welfare'

As a part of the Centre for Ethnicity and Citizenship Seminar Series, Gurminder Bhambra Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, is holding a talk on ‘The Colonial Context of National Welfare: From Imperial Amnesia to “White Replacement” on Thursday, 8th October 2020 at 5 pm on Zoom. In this talk, Bhambra will address the processes of migration that created the British Empire and then discuss the ways in which colonialism and colonised populations were central to the building up of resources within the national state. This talk responds to claims about ‘white replacement’ and the question of who is legitimately entitled to a share in the wealth of European nations, specifically Britain. The key misunderstanding here is the idea that Britain has been a nation and that national assets have been built up internally to be passed on as an ‘inheritance’ to future citizens.