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Third Globe Quarterly & The Illustration For Colonialism Debate

This is a curated too regularly updated overview (last update: xviii Apr 2018) over the events that followed after the publication of Bruce Gilley's article The Case for Colonialism inwards the mag Third World Quarterly.

I have got maintained a Storify almost this theme since September 2017, but since Storify announced its goal of life for May 2018 I recreated the developments inwards this spider web log post.
This post volition live updated if too when novel articles, comments etc. appear, but my original Storify volition non live updated.

The original article is no longer available on the journal's website:
This Viewpoint essay has been withdrawn at the asking of the academic mag editor, too inwards understanding alongside the writer of the essay. Following a number of complaints, Taylor & Francis conducted a thorough investigation into the peer review physical care for on this article. Whilst this clearly demonstrated the essay had undergone double-blind peer review, inwards line alongside the journal's editorial policy, the mag editor has after received serious too credible threats of personal violence. These threats are linked to the publication of this essay. As the publisher, nosotros must convey this seriously. Taylor & Francis has a potent too supportive duty of aid to all our academic editorial teams, too this is why nosotros are withdrawing this essay.
However, after some dorsum too forth, the writer Bruce Gilley made it available through his academy spider web page.

So hither is what has happened so far betwixt mid-September too mid-December 2017:

'The Internet' notices the article
The kickoff petition
The Third World Quarterly debacle
However, the electrical flow “shift from liberal racism to explicit white supremacy” inwards the U.S. too Europe have got signaled to people similar Gilley that it’s ok to come upwardly out too demonstrate their truthful racist colors.
There are many Gilley’s out there. Let them come upwardly out. Expose them too their racism, hatred, inhumanity, intellectual ineptitude, inferiority too sad propaganda too lies. And contend them.
A Revolt at a Journal Puts Peer Review Under the Microscope
The paper was rejected past times peer reviewers, editorial-board members say, but it was published anyway.
To them, the contestation shows how academe’s broader headwinds, similar the growing importance of metrics too the demand for professors too journals to remain relevant inwards a hypercompetitive environment, tin give notice corrupt the peer-review process. It also is a cautionary tale almost what tin give notice travel on when communication breaks downward betwixt a journal’s editor too its board, too transparency inwards peer review becomes a casualty.
Taylor & Francis weighs in, supporting the editorial decision-making processes
Through nearly 200 years, nosotros have got non shied away from publishing what some may reckon equally controversial material, maintaining strict editorial independence on our journals whilst ensuring the articles nosotros position out travel through a rigorous peer-review physical care for too follow the polices nosotros position inwards seat equally a company. This essay did undergo those processes too so, whilst its contents may brand many of us uncomfortable (and indeed upset), nosotros exercise non reckon it equally our purpose to censor what is undoubtedly a highly controversial view.
‘Colonialism’ Article Flap Highlights Push for Transparency inwards Publishing
For Prashad, the latter number was significant.
“Across the board, editorial boards have got just travel window dressing,” he said. “The job of editorial boards should live to furnish intellectual gravity and, inwards this case, when at that spot was conflictual evidence coming from exterior reviewers, or when the editor realized at that spot was some conflict, that mightiness have got been a proficient fourth dimension to consult the editorial board.”
(...)
John K. Wilson, an independent scholar of academic liberty too co-editor of the American Association of University Professors’ “Academe” blog, said that, inwards general, “Editors brand the choices, non reviewers. So it's non a inquiry of veto power, it's editorial judgment.” At the same time, he said, “peer review exists for a proficient reason. If an editor is going to turn down the judgment of all the reviewers, that editor ought to have got a really proficient ground too inform the editorial board almost it.”
Prashad didn’t dominion out e'er returning to Third World Quarterly’s editorial board, but said, “Surely at that spot are questions a mortal of integrity would ask, to avoid coming dorsum simply to live window dressing again.” Among them: What procedures are inwards seat to assess articles that have got garnered divide decisions from reviewers? And every 2 or iii months, volition at that spot live a missive of the alphabet from the mag editor to the board letting to them know what’s coming up?
In the goal the writer stands past times his article 'in its entirety'
I am glad that Taylor & Francis has documented the physical care for of peer review through which my article, “The Case for Colonialism”, was submitted too accepted for publication inwards the Third World Quarterly. I am also pleased that they have got reaffirmed the C.O.P.E. principles of academic publishing that are designed to protect scientific inquiry from censorship,including self‐censorship. I stand upwardly past times the article inwards its entirety.
More reflections
How an article defending colonialism was e'er published is a mystery roiling academia: Paradkar
The wishing to appear even-handed nether pressure level from faux free-speech defenders has created a damaging imitation equivalency model inwards mainstream media, where the compulsion to larn “the other side” way unfounded ideas are given the same weight equally audio reasoning.
Despite the imperfections of academia, academically credited facts established alongside rigour, empirical evidence too scholarship remain a credible tool to contend climate alter deniers, racism deniers, anti-vaxxers or whatever i floating inwards the universe of “alternative facts.”
Third World Quarterly row: Why some western intellectuals are trying to debrutalise colonialism
To some extent the mag was also able to stand upwardly higher upwardly the fray when neo-liberal ideas swept through the academies of the world, demanding that world sector evolution live given over to private sector growth. There was stubbornness inwards the journal, a wishing to travel on to verbalize for the peoples of the Third World fifty-fifty equally its elites had taken a dissimilar direction. Shahid Qadir, who took over from Altaf Gauhar, was the captain inwards these hard times.
The Third World Quarterly debacle
However, the electrical flow “shift from liberal racism to explicit white supremacy” inwards the U.S. too Europe have got signaled to people similar Gilley that it’s ok to come upwardly out too demonstrate their truthful racist colors.
There are many Gilley’s out there. Let them come upwardly out. Expose them too their racism, hatred, inhumanity, intellectual ineptitude, inferiority too sad propaganda too lies. And contend them.
A Revolt at a Journal Puts Peer Review Under the Microscope
The paper was rejected past times peer reviewers, editorial-board members say, but it was published anyway.
To them, the contestation shows how academe’s broader headwinds, similar the growing importance of metrics too the demand for professors too journals to remain relevant inwards a hypercompetitive environment, tin give notice corrupt the peer-review process. It also is a cautionary tale almost what tin give notice travel on when communication breaks downward betwixt a journal’s editor too its board, too transparency inwards peer review becomes a casualty.
Taylor & Francis weighs in, supporting the editorial decision-making processes
Through nearly 200 years, nosotros have got non shied away from publishing what some may reckon equally controversial material, maintaining strict editorial independence on our journals whilst ensuring the articles nosotros position out travel through a rigorous peer-review physical care for too follow the polices nosotros position inwards seat equally a company. This essay did undergo those processes too so, whilst its contents may brand many of us uncomfortable (and indeed upset), nosotros exercise non reckon it equally our purpose to censor what is undoubtedly a highly controversial view.
‘Colonialism’ Article Flap Highlights Push for Transparency inwards Publishing
For Prashad, the latter number was significant.
“Across the board, editorial boards have got just travel window dressing,” he said. “The job of editorial boards should live to furnish intellectual gravity and, inwards this case, when at that spot was conflictual evidence coming from exterior reviewers, or when the editor realized at that spot was some conflict, that mightiness have got been a proficient fourth dimension to consult the editorial board.”
(...)
John K. Wilson, an independent scholar of academic liberty too co-editor of the American Association of University Professors’ “Academe” blog, said that, inwards general, “Editors brand the choices, non reviewers. So it's non a inquiry of veto power, it's editorial judgment.” At the same time, he said, “peer review exists for a proficient reason. If an editor is going to turn down the judgment of all the reviewers, that editor ought to have got a really proficient ground too inform the editorial board almost it.”
Prashad didn’t dominion out e'er returning to Third World Quarterly’s editorial board, but said, “Surely at that spot are questions a mortal of integrity would ask, to avoid coming dorsum simply to live window dressing again.” Among them: What procedures are inwards seat to assess articles that have got garnered divide decisions from reviewers? And every 2 or iii months, volition at that spot live a missive of the alphabet from the mag editor to the board letting to them know what’s coming up?
In the goal the writer stands past times his article 'in its entirety'
I am glad that Taylor & Francis has documented the physical care for of peer review through which my article, “The Case for Colonialism”, was submitted too accepted for publication inwards the Third World Quarterly. I am also pleased that they have got reaffirmed the C.O.P.E. principles of academic publishing that are designed to protect scientific inquiry from censorship,including self‐censorship. I stand upwardly past times the article inwards its entirety.
More reflections
Moral paralysis inwards American academia
What is far to a greater extent than troubling than a non-entity seeking minute notoriety past times going against the massively accumulated archival evidence of human suffering European colonialism has caused too scholarly arguments mapping out the planetary calamities of the white supremacists' conquest of the the world is this bizarre bourgeois etiquette too liberal politesse that invariably rising obsequiously to encounter such obscenities. Oh, he is our "colleague", the professoriate proffer. "Let us invite him for a 'dialogue'," they generously gesture. We demand to abide by liberty of human face - mention nauseam.
A Dangerous Withdrawal
Farhana Sultana, an associate professor of geography at Syracuse University who helped organize i of the petitions for retraction, said via electronic mail she, too, has faced “considerable attacks too abuse for my interest inwards this debate, so I understand alongside the concerns regarding safety, too I fully condemn all threats of violence, targeted harassment too online bullying.”
She added, “To reiterate, [the] aim of the petition was almost upholding rigorous academic scholarly standards, integrity too ethics past times the journal; it had naught to exercise alongside curtailing the author’s correct to gratuitous speech. It should also non live associated alongside whatever threats to the journal’s editor inwards master copy or anyone else.”
Should you lot live on a blacklist because you lot signed the initial petition? Peter Wood thinks so
The Article that Made 16,000 Ideologues Go Wild
Thus the Gilley thing is soundless some other reminder of the hollowness of the university’s leaders. Confronted alongside a straightforward illustration of academic thuggery, they stand upwardly perplexed, unwilling to push clit a meaningful line anywhere betwixt legitimate human face of ideas too mob rule.
Peter Wood’s Call for a Blacklist
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 blacklist against scholars who sign petitions criticizing articles is a radical mensuration toward repression. It’s fifty-fifty to a greater extent than alarming because Wood is equating a petition alongside a threat of violence, which is a despicable smear against people who (even if they mightiness live misguided) simply dislike the content too the physical care for past times which this essay was published. The decease threats inwards this incident are a crime, too must live denounced, but Wood’s approach inwards blaming innocent people makes things worse. Whatever i thinks of The Case for Colonialism, nosotros should all oppose Wood’s Case for Blacklists.
Former editorial board members answer to retraction of the article alongside their version of the story
Here is the existent story behind the #TQW #ThirdWorldQuarterly debacle around 'The instance for colonialism' @KristofTiteca @insiderhigher pic.twitter.com/63AdNWHoIO

A reminder from studying colonial economical history
There is No “Case for Colonialism”: insights from the colonial economical history.
equally evolution economists too economical historians, nosotros are aware of the adventure of developing a neo-colonial agenda seeking to impose what nosotros believe to live proficient economical policies. The adventure relies precisely on imposing a policy; colonialism is a bundle that cannot live stripped off its violence, too its history teaches us that imposing rules inwards unusual territories is saltation to fail. Any thought that the colonial “toolkit” would live dissimilar today because nosotros know improve forgets that the variety of violence that States exerted inwards colonised areas could non have got happened inwards Europe at that time. French Republic inwards the 1920s was a parliamentary republic whose authorities would vote the most progressive workers’ rights inwards history just a decade later; too yet, an estimated 20,000 forced labourers died inwards the structure of the Congo-Océan railway inwards French Congo inwards the 1920s. Hundreds of thousands of people died during the independence wars inwards Algeria, Indochina, too Republic of Cameroon a just lilliputian combat to a greater extent than than 50 years ago.
No business equally park for some TWQ collaborators

A quasi #allmalepanel of Northern academics tries to defend TWQ on grounds of #academicfreedom The TWQ thing enters the academic conference circles: Panel word alongside one-time TWQ editorial board members at the African Studies Association conference The International Studies Association's Global Development Section is also non happy alongside TWQ 
The Times is reviving the debate alongside a pay-walled catch slice at the goal of November
Don’t experience guilty almost our colonial history

But it is available from the author's Oxford University inquiry pump
Among the virtues of colonial rule, equally Gilley sees them, were oft the formation of coherent political communities, reliable dry ground institutions too so living-spaces where individuals too their families could flourish.

Another article inwards the Times
Hate crusade against ‘colonialist’ professor

Bruce Gilley was inwards a java store alongside a friend, an Afghan refugee, when an electronic mail from a colleague informed him his academic paper had caused a sensation — too non inwards a proficient way. Hate post service was piling up.

In a missive of the alphabet to the Times editor many scholars limited their frustration alongside the newspaper's coverage of the TWQ number & colonialism Scholars too the debate almost colonial rule 
Full disclosure: I also signed the missive of the alphabet to the Times too seat myself equally a proud 'dreamer'!

Food for thought 

The empire dreamt back

Lhuzekhu’s dream was amid hundreds collected from across the British empire – from the Indian subcontinent, Nigeria, Uganda, Australia, the Solomon Islands too elsewhere – on the instructions of an anthropologist at the London School of Economics (LSE) named Charles Gabriel Seligman. Seligman was a longtime adviser to colonial governments, which funded his inquiry too helped to prepare colonial officials at the LSE. Seligman made his career equally a physical anthropologist at the superlative of racialist science. That meant defining human groups on the ground of physiognomy too locating them inwards evolutionary hierarchies. Seligman was, inwards short, an imperialist too a classifier par excellence. So what did he promise to achieve past times amassing dreams such equally Lhuzekhu’s?
(...)
In the end, it is mayhap the British government’s decades-long back upwardly for inquiry into unconscious minds that is most revealing. Lacking the mechanisms that register world catch inwards democratic societies – elections, protests, press criticism – too confronting immense cultural differences to boot, British violet rulers fretted over what Africans, Asians too West Indians were thinking. The British sensed their ignorance, too they felt vulnerable, a seat that made the tools of psychoanalysis irresistible. The problem was non that these tools failed on their ain terms, but that they failed to tell violet rulers what they wanted to hear.

Happy holidays!

The TWQ article too the broader debate almost colonialism's send on travel on to brand waves inwards the UK

Oxford University defendant of backing apologists of British colonialism

The dispute reignites debate within Oxford almost its historical baggage, alongside Biggar’s proposal referencing the recent contestation over the statue of Cecil Rhodes inwards Oriel College, which critics say memorialises Rhodes’s racism.Biggar has dismissed criticism of his plans equally “collective online bullying” too said the Ethics too Empire projection “will pay careful attending to the historical multifariousness of things that empire tin give notice be, too operate out a to a greater extent than sophisticated way of evaluating them morally.”
Nigel Biggar, the Oxford academic behind the proposal continues to defend Bruce Gilley too his original article:
Both The Times and Daily Mail travel on to back upwardly the Oxford establishment:


And too then Bruce Gilley returns alongside a novel essay:
Brandon Kendhammer's initial response to Gilley's piece:
Gilley, Biggar & the debates around colonialism seem to have got started a bigger debate inwards the U.K. almost 'free speech' too 'no-platforming' initiatives at U.K. universities.
Jonathan Healy dissects this Times piece:

Last Fall This Scholar Defended Colonialism. Now He’s Defending Himself.
The ultimate flaw of that declaration is, I’m fully tenured. I’m non trying to brand an send on on the professional person ladder because I’ve already climbed to the top.
Secondly, I was a journalist prior to my career equally an academic. So yes, I have got a vogue to write clear too concise prose that is widely read. I know what a proficient headline is. And "The Case for Colonialism" was a proficient headline.
Vimal Patel for The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Professors Are Targets In Online Culture Wars; Some Fight Back
(Gilley) calls the response "a majority global mob." The article was withdrawn after threats of violence were made against both him personally too the editor of the mag that published it, Third World Quarterly.
Experts who report the spread of abhor oral communication online say at that spot is a divergence inwards patterns of online harassment betwixt the correct too the left. Attacks from the left tend to originate from within campus communities. Thousands of self-identified academics, for example, signed online petitions calling for Gilley's article to live retracted.
Anya Kamenetz for NPR links some of the responses to the TWQ instance indirectly to 'hate speech' too lets Gilley repeat his seat unchallenged inwards an endeavour to uncovering a 'balance' inwards what she described equally 'culture wars'.

Invitation to Apply for TWQ Editorship
Having steered the mag inwards that time, founding editor Shahid Qadir is at nowadays stepping aside too volition focus on a to a greater extent than ambassadorial role. TWQ is so looking for a novel academic Editor, who volition shape too operate on the mag alongside a pith squad of Associate Editors too a novel too expanding International Editorial Advisory Board.
Official annunciation on the TWQ homepage that the mag is looking for a novel editor.

July 2018: The render of the original 'case for colonialism' article!
NAS Re-publishes “The Case for Colonialism”
The NAS has re-published “The Case for Colonialism” to ensure that it volition live permanently available to students, scholars, too the full general public.
The conservative National Association of Scholars is keen to travel on the debates around 'free speech' too re-publishes Gilley's original article...

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