What We Talk About When We Talk About Decolonization

This week on Trend Lines, political theorist Adom Getachew joins WPR’s Elliot Waldman to talk about the history of anti-colonial nationalist movements that tried to remake the world in an egalitarian mold, eschewing old concepts of empire and subjugation—and the resonance of their vision today.

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