Imperial Inequalities

Workshop on Colonial Taxation and National Welfare across European Empires

Friday 27th January, 2023

2-4pm

University of Sussex (and livestreamed on Zoom)

(If you are attending in person, there is no need to register. If you wish to attend online, please register in order to receive the Zoom link)

In this workshop, we address the institutional and fiscal processes involved in modes of taxation and the hierarchies (and exclusions) of welfare distribution across Europe’s global empires. We highlight the ways in which particularities of economic governance across European empires have shaped forms of inequality in the present and their ongoing implications for issues of contemporary political economy.

The workshop will involve short talks from the contributors of a recent volume, Imperial Inequalities: The Politics of Economic Governance across European Empires, published by Manchester University Press. This will include broader discussion of the contemporary relevance of these arguments for tax policy nationally and globally.

Contributors at the workshop:

Gurminder K Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex.

David Brown is Archival Discovery Lead for Beyond 2022, Ireland’s virtual record treasury, based at Trinity College Dublin.

Laura Channing is Assistant Professor of Economic History in the Department of History, Durham University.

Alex Cobham is chief executive of the Tax Justice Network, and a commissioner for the Scottish Government’s Poverty and Inequality Commission.

Paul Gilbert is a Senior Lecturer in International Development at the University of Sussex.

Lyla Latif lectures at the University of Nairobi School of Law and is working on her doctorate at Cardiff Law and Politics.

Andrew Mackillop is a Senior Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow.

Julia McClure is Senior Lecturer in late medieval and early modern global history at the University of Glasgow.

Samuel F. Sanchez is Associate Professor of modern history, Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, Institut des Mondes Africains.

Madeline Woker is University Assistant Professor in the History of France and the Francophone World, at the University of Cambridge.

This event is organised in collaboration with the Tax Justice Network.

Imperial Inequalities Workshop