Political theorist Adom Getachew discusses her book Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination in dialogue with Danny Postel of Northwestern University's Center for International & Area Studies.

Adom Getachew is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is on the faculty board of the Pozen Center for Human Rights, a fellow at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), and a faculty affiliate at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture. Her book Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Princeton University Press, 2019) was named Best Book by the Theory Section of the International Studies Association.

Danny Postel is Assistant Director of the Center for International & Area Studies at Northwestern. He is the author of Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2007) and co-editor of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future (Melville House, 2010), The Syria Dilemma (MIT Press, 2013), and Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (Hurst Publishers/Oxford University Press, 2017).

“Worldmaking after Empire is a breathtaking achievement on the history and theory of global justice.”
—Samuel Moyn, Yale University

“This beautifully written and tremendously important book charts new territory and moves political theory in essential and innovative new directions.”
—Jeanne Morefield, University of Birmingham

“[An] extraordinary book [that] ask[s] us to return to an earlier moment of bold creativity, when an egalitarian world order was imaginable, and when thinkers from the Global South set to work to bring it about. We could use more of that.”
—Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University

“Essential reading, this masterful book speaks beautifully to our own contemporary debates over globalization, inequality, and international politics, and serves as a powerful reminder of the paths not taken.”
—Aziz Rana, Cornell University

“In this profound and elegant book, Adom Getachew challenges the conventional narrative of anticolonial self-determination, showing that, in its best hands, decolonization was also an effort to critique and reimagine the moral-political languages of international order in the hope of transforming postimperial possibilities.”
—David Scott, Columbia University

This event was a co-production of Northwestern's Center for International & Area Studies and the Evanston Public Library.

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