This special section examines decolonization and social change in postcolonial states, highlighting the role of dissent as crucial for political independence.
This special section places dissent at the center of decolonization to better understand the limitations of the postcolonial state and anti-colonial politics; to explore both continuities and ruptures in forms of mobilization and knowledge production during the transition from the colonial to the postcolonial; and ultimately to understand how decolonization as first and foremost a claim for political independence evolved into decolonization as a means of producing social, political, and economic change and justice within and across state boundaries.
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