“Building on the foundations established in Social Theory I, this course examines the evolution of postcolonial and decolonial thought into the twenty-first century, offering students critical engagement with theoretical frameworks that have reshaped contemporary social and political debates. The course centres on key concepts such as Orientalism, coloniality of power, epistemic delinking, and Southern epistemologies. Through these analytical lenses, students explore how modern social theory has been challenged and reconfigured in relation to questions of knowledge production, race, gender, subjectivity, and social hierarchy.nnThe course situates these debates within broader critiques of Eurocentrism, methodological nationalism, and universalist narratives of modernity. It is particularly concerned with examining the ways colonial histories continue to structure contemporary inequalities, state formations, and regimes of knowledge. These theoretical interventions are then extended to Global South contexts, enabling students to analyse how concepts such as coloniality, epistemic injustice, racialisation, intersectionality, and recognition operate across South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.nnIn doing so, the course provides both a historical understanding of how social theory emerged within—and was shaped by—colonial modernity, and a structured opportunity to apply these conceptual tools to contemporary empirical cases and lived social realities.n.n”
