AEP 69: The Methods of Empire, with Isa Blumi

Isa Blumi is a professor at Stockholm University in Sweden and a scholar of the Empire. We talk about a range of imperial methods, including the creation of a ‘traditional-modern’ or ‘backward-forward’ dichotomy; humanitarianism; debt; depopulating villages; recruiting some classes of colonials to administer the imperial project, and survey the bleak landscape for anti-imperialists today.

Om Podcasten

Author and academic Justin Podur brings you a podcast about how today's Empire works and who is resisting. We're focused on the global south - Venezuela, Colombia, the DR Congo, Israel/Palestine, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Iraq. Analysis tools include geopolitics, development, political economy, environmental science, strategy, and at the base of it all, history.