This article pivots around the work of early modern legal scholar Hugo Grotius to consider political stakes ontological assessments sea and water in context Dutch imperialism. It draws on links with land reclamation projects Netherlands, while at same time ties these urgent questions within contemporary critical ocean studies water, ontology, race. Suggesting a rethinking Grotius’s understandin...

.priscianus of lydia’s solutionum ad chosroem is a series of answers to questions asked at a philosophical debate held at the sasanian court c. 530 ce. priscianus of lydia was one of seven non-christian philosophers from the byzantine empire who journeyed to the sasanian empire to take part in the debate. long overlooked in the history of philosophy, priscianus of lydia’s text represents a bran...

Before the 1980s, the powerful link between empire and race was marginalised in British imperial history. The postcolonial 'turn' opened up new ways of exploring racial constructions of colonised subjects and stimulated debate over the extent to which representations of the colonised in colonial discourse underpinned imperial power. In Race and Empire, based on an AHRB/C-funded research project...