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Here is a list of representative publications by Centre members, who pursue wide-ranging research agendas in the areas of the ethics and politics of (human) rights; reparations, including the practice of reparative history and reparative social science; and justice, including its wide-ranging theorisations and its pursuit by transnational movements and struggles.

2025

• Stavrianakis, A. (2025). Air power, controversy and colonial continuities. UK arms sales and the war in Yemen. Middle East Critique, pages. doi:10.1080/19436149.2025.2496844
  Article. .
• Hartviksen, J. (2025). Testimonies of violence: Rigoberta Menchú and collective experiences of violence in Guatemala. Journal of Gender Studies, 1-15. doi:10.1080/09589236.2025.2496391
  Article. .
• Bhambra, G. (2025). Empires, famine, and the significance of the political economy of colonialism: from the Mughal Empire to British colonial rule in India. European Journal of Sociology, 1-24. doi:10.1017/s0003975625000050
  Article. .
• McGregor, J., Lekhutile, S., & Kediseng, G. (2025). ‘Restoring’ museum collections to decolonial ends: constraints and opportunities for disrupting racialized marginalization in Southern Africa. Third Text, pages. doi:10.1080/09528822.2024.2441630
  Article. .

2024

• Bowsher, J. (2024). Rebel greed and postcolonial governance: neoliberal accountings of the past within transitional justice processes in Sierra Leone. Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 15(1), pages.
  Article. .
• Odysseos, L., & Sokhi-Bulley, B. (2024). After rights? Politics, ethics, aesthetics: an introduction. The International Journal of Human Rights, 28(8-9), 1209-1220. doi:10.1080/13642987.2024.2414636
  Article. .
• Odysseos, L., Sokhi-Bulley, B., Pham, Q. N., Petersmann, M., Borowetz, T., Seear, K., . . . Frost, L. (2024). [Edited Special Issue] After Rights? Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics. The International Journal of Human Rights, 28(8-9), pages.
  Edited Special Journal Issue. .
• Bhambra, G. (2024). Caste and its implications for sociologies of inequality. Current Sociology, pages. doi:10.1177/00113921241275681
  Article. .
• Bhambra, G. (2024). Empires and colonialism: an essay in historiographic reconstruction. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning, 65(3), 192-205. doi:10.18261/tfs.65.3.6
  Article. .
• Karp, D. (2025). A post-Hegelian theory of human rights: beyond recognition and the state. European Journal of International Relations, 31(1), 77-100. doi:10.1177/13540661241271029
  Article. .
• Lester, A. (2024). The Truth about Empire: Real Stories of British Colonialism. London, UK: Hurst.
  Book. .
• Bhambra, G., Edwards, E., Finn, M., & Williams, F. (2024). From the ‘culture wars’ to reparative histories. Journal of the British Academy, 12(1-2), pages. doi:10.5871/jba/012.a10
  Article. .
• Baldi, G. (2024). From text to meaning: unpacking the semiotics of article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 1-24. doi:10.1007/s11196-024-10109-3
  Article. .
• Bowsher, J. (2024). After truth, after shame... after information politics? Rethinking the epistemologies of human rights in the digital-authoritarian conjuncture. The International Journal of Human Rights, pages. doi:10.1080/13642987.2024.2315277
  Article. .
• Kufakurinani, U., Mauye, S., & Nyambara, P. S. (2024). ‘It remains untold’. white women and gender based violence in colonial Zimbabwe. Tanzania Zamani: A Journal of Historical Research and Writing, 14(2), pages. doi:10.56279/TZA20211424
  Article. .

2023

• Ferreira, N. (2023). Better Late Than Never? SOGI Asylum Claims and 'Late Disclosure' Through a Foucauldian Lens. doi:10.31235/osf.io/y3e8b
  Preprint. .
• Bhambra, G., & Holmwood, J. (2023). The trap of capitalism, racial or otherwise. Archives Europeennes de Sociologie, 64(2), 163-172. doi:10.1017/S000397562300036X
  Article. .
• Sokhi-Bulley, B. (2023). ‘After rights’ is friendship: on abandonment, obligation and the stranger. The International Journal of Human Rights, 1-19. doi:10.1080/13642987.2023.2250726
  Article. .
• Odysseos, L. (2024). After rights, after Man? Sylvia Wynter, sociopoetic struggle and the ‘undared shape’. The International Journal of Human Rights, 28(8-9), 1-28. doi:10.1080/13642987.2023.2227101
  Article. .
• Corble, A. (2023). Between open and closed: recursive exits and returns to the fuzzy field of a community library across a decade of austerity. In R. Smith, & S. Delamont (Eds.), Leaving the Field Methodological Insights from Ethnographic Exits (1st ed., pp. 204-221). Manchester: Manchester University Press. Retrieved from https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157652/leaving-the-field/
  Chapter.
• Hartviksen, J. (2023). Roadblocks on the <i>ruta de denuncia</i>: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip. Gender & Development, 31(1), 33-52. doi:10.1080/13552074.2023.2167633
  Article. .
• Karp, D. (2023). Business and human rights in a changing world order: beyond the ethics of disembedded liberalism. Business and Human Rights Journal, 8(2), 135-150. doi:10.1017/bhj.2023.10
  Article. .
• Martell, L. (2023). Alternative societies: for a pluralist socialism. UK: Bristol University Press.
  Book. .

2022

• Bhambra, G., & Newell, P. (2022). More than a metaphor: climate colonialism in perspective. Global Social Challenges Journal, 1-9. doi:10.1332/EIEM6688
  Article. .
• Bhambra, G. (2022). For a reparatory social science. Global Social Challenges Journal, 1(1), 8-20. doi:10.1332/HIEO9991
  Article. .
• Lester, A. (2022). Deny and Disavow Distancing the Imperial Past in the Culture Wars. London, UK: Sunrise.
  Book. .
• Evans, M. (2022). Beyond disciplines, beyond fields, beyond transitional justice. In Beyond transitional justice: transformative justice and the state of the field (or non-field) (pp. 34-42). Abingdon: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003169451-6
  Chapter. .
• Evans, M. (2022). Beyond transitional justice: transformative justice and the state of the field (or non-field). Abingdon: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003169451
  Edited Book. .
• Bhambra, G. (2022). Relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state. British Journal of Sociology, 73(1), 4-15. doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12896
  Article. .
• Bhambra, G. (2022). A decolonial project for Europe. Journal of Common Market Studies, 60(2), 229-244. doi:10.1111/jcms.13310
  Article. .

2021

• Hartviksen, J. (2021). Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala. Gender & Development, 29(2-3), 291-312. doi:10.1080/13552074.2021.1979798
  Article. .
• Hartviksen, J. (2022). A matrix of violences: the political economy of violences against Mayan women in Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 24(1), 87-110. doi:10.1080/14616742.2021.1976066
  Article. .
• Baldi, G. (2021). Un-veiling dichotomies: European secularism and women’s veiling. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-79297-8
  Book. .
• Karp, D. (2021). Business and responsibility for human rights in global governance. In The Routledge Handbook on Responsibility in International Relations (pp. 318-330). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  Chapter. .
• Prentice, R. (2021). Labour rights from labour wrongs? transnational compensation and the spatial politics of labour rights after Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza garment factory collapse. Antipode, 1-20. doi:10.1111/anti.12751
  Article. .
• Bhambra, G. (2021). Decolonizing critical theory?: epistemological justice, progress, reparations. Critical Times, 4(1), 73-89. doi:10.1215/26410478-8855227
  Article. .
• Ferreira, N. (2021). An exercise in detachment: the Council of Europe and sexual minority asylum claims. In Queer migration and asylum in Europe (pp. 78-108). UCL Press.
  Chapter. .
• Dustin, M., & Held, N. (2021). ‘They sent me to the mountain’: the role space, religion and support groups play for LGBTIQ+ asylum claimants. In Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe (pp. 184-215). London, UK: UCL Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv17ppc7d.16
  Chapter. .
• Bhambra, G. K. (2021). ‘OPEN BORDERS’: A postcolonial critique. In Spatial Transformations Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on the Refguration of Spaces (pp. 87-96). doi:10.4324/9781003036159-9
  Chapter. .

2020

• Angelo, A. -M. (2020). Black power on the move: migration, internationalism, and the British and Israeli Black Panthers. UNC Press.
  Book. .
• Abdelhamid, A. (2020). 'When will we be ready for democracy?': the mobilisation of deviance as counterrevolutionary technology in Egypt. Journal of Resistance Studies, 6(2), 51-85.
  Article. .
• Lester, A., Boehme, K., & Mitchell, P. (2021). Ruling the World: Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108584227
  Book. .
• Karp, D. (2020). Fixing meanings in global governance? "Respect" and "Protect" in the UN guiding principles on business and human rights. Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 26(4), 628-649. doi:10.1163/19426720-02604002
  Article. .
• Bhambra, G. (2021). Colonial global economy: towards a theoretical reorientation of political economy. Review of International Political Economy, 28(2), 307-322. doi:10.1080/09692290.2020.1830831
  Article. .
• Sokhi-Bulley, B., & Bailes, S. J. (2020). Are we 'friends'? Doing friendship in hostile environment(s). Sussex Strike Collective. Retrieved from https://elements.sussex.ac.uk/
  Blog.
• Mora, A. (2020). Black hole state: human rights and the work of suspension in post-war Kosovo. Social Anthropology, 28(1), 83-95. doi:10.1111/1469-8676.12742
  Article. .
• Cowan, J. (2020). ‘The feeling of pursuing an ideal’: a League of Nations civil servant reflects on his work. Social Anthropology, 28(1), 17-34. doi:10.1111/1469-8676.12744
  Article. .

2019

• Karp, D. (2020). What is the responsibility to respect human rights? Reconsidering the 'respect, protect, and fulfill' framework. International Theory, 12(1), 83-108. doi:10.1017/S1752971919000198
  Article. .
• Mora, A. (2019). 'We don’t work for the Serbs, we work for human rights': justice and impartiality in transitional Kosovo. In Everyday justice: law, ethnography, injustice (pp. 83-105). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108763530.006
  Chapter. .
• Odysseos, L. (2019). Stolen life’s poetic revolt. Millennium, 47(3), 341-372. doi:10.1177/0305829819860199
  Article. .
• Prentice, R. (2019). Just compensation? The price of death and injury after the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse. Research in Economic Anthropology, 39, 157-178. doi:10.1108/S0190-128120190000039008
  Article. .
• Lee, P. -H. (2019). Queer Asia’s Body without Organs: In the Making of Queer/Decolonial Politics. In Queer Asia: decolonising and reimagining sexuality and gender (pp. 2850.0 pages). London: Zed Books.
  Chapter. .
• Danbury, R., & Townend, J. (2019). Can you keep a secret? Legal and technological obstacles to protecting journalistic sources. In Journalism, power and investigation: global and activist perspectives (pp. 95-112). New York; Abingdon: Routledge.
  Chapter. .
• Ferreira, N. (2019). A Roma European crisis road-map: a holistic answer to a complex problem. In Constructing Roma migrants: European narratives and local governance (pp. 31-49). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-11373-5_3
  Chapter. .
• Corble, A. (2019). Between hollowed-out public services and productive counter-public spaces. In Nottingham Business School Seminar Series. Nottingham Trent University.
  Presentation.
• Evans, M. (2019). Contentious politics and contentious scholarship: challenges researching social movements in South Africa. The International Journal of Human Rights, 23(4), 653-678. doi:10.1080/13642987.2018.1562911
  Article. .
• Ashraf, H., & Prentice, R. (2019). Beyond factory safety: Labor unions, militant protest, and the accelerated ambitions of Bangladesh’s export garment industry. Dialectical Anthropology, 43(1), 93-107. doi:10.1007/s10624-018-9539-0
  Article. .
• Mwatwara, W., & Kufakurinani, U. (2019). Another Round of Plunder?. In Unknown Book (pp. 175-192). The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.. doi:10.5040/9781666991604.ch-009
  Chapter. .

2018

• Bosland, J., & Townend, J. (2018). Open justice, transparency and the media: representing the public interest in the physical and virtual courtroom. Communications Law, 23(4), 183-202.
  Article. .
• Ferreira, N. (2018). Child labour and EU law and policy: a regional solution for a global issue. doi:10.31235/osf.io/b8fkv
  Preprint. .
• Coleman, L. M. (2018). Rights in a state of exception. The deadly colonial ethics of voluntary corporate responsibility for human rights. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 8(6), 874-900. doi:10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-0973
  Article. .
• Stavrianakis, A. (2019). Controlling weapons circulation in a postcolonial militarised world. Review of International Studies, 45(1), 57-76. doi:10.1017/S0260210518000190
  Article. .
• Baldi, G. (2018). Re-conceptualizing equality in the work place: a reading of the latest CJEU’s opinions over the practice of veiling. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 7(2), 296-312. doi:10.1093/ojlr/rwy028
  Article. .
• Angelo, A. -M. (2018). ‘Black oppressed people all over the world are one’: the British Black Panthers’ grassroots internationalism, 1969-1973. Journal of Civil and Human Rights, 4(1), 64-97. doi:10.5406/jcivihumarigh.4.1.0064
  Article. .
• Bhambra, G., & Holmwood, J. (2018). Colonialism, postcolonialism and the liberal welfare state. New Political Economy, 23(5), 574-587. doi:10.1080/13563467.2017.1417369
  Article. .

2017

• Bhambra, G. (2017). Brexit, Trump, and ‘methodological whiteness’: on the misrecognition of race and class. British Journal of Sociology, 68(S1), 214-232. doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12317
  Article. .
• Odysseos, L. (2017). The quest for global ethics after the decolonial challenge: potentialities of Heidegger’s thought. In Heidegger and the Global Age (pp. 269-296). London: Rowman and Littlefield International.
  Chapter. .
• Evans, M. (2018). A future without forgiveness: beyond reconciliation in transitional justice. International Politics, 55(5), 678-692. doi:10.1057/s41311-017-0091-3
  Article. .
• Bhambra, G. (2017). The current crisis of Europe: refugees, colonialism, and the limits of cosmopolitanism. European Law Journal, 23(5), 395-405. doi:10.1111/eulj.12234
  Article. .
• Baldi, G. (2017). 'Burqa avenger': law and religious practices in secular space. Law and Critique, 29(1), 31-56. doi:10.1007/s10978-017-9208-5
  Article. .
• Odysseos, L. (2017). Prolegomena to any future decolonial ethics: coloniality, poetics and ‘being human as praxis'. Millennium, 45(3), 447-472. doi:10.1177/0305829817704503
  Article. .
• Bhambra, G. (2017). “Our island story”: the dangerous politics of belonging in austere times. In Austere histories in European societies: social exclusion and the contest of colonial memories (pp. 204.0 pages). London: Routledge.
  Chapter. .

2016

• Baldi, G. (2016). Liberal paradoxes: women’s body, religious expression, and gender equality in a secular age. AG AboutGender, 5(10), 166-185.
  Article. .
• Coleman, L. M., & Rosenow, D. (2016). Beyond biopolitics: struggles over nature. In The Routledge handbook of biopolitics (pp. 260-278). Routledge.
  Chapter. .
• Sokhi-Bulley, B. (2016). Countering the changing genealogies of migration in the EU. In Governmentality after neoliberalism (pp. 193-211). Abingdon: Routeledge.
  Chapter. .
• Bhambra, G. (2016). Comparative historical sociology and the state: problems of method. Cultural Sociology, 10(3), 335-351. doi:10.1177/1749975516639085
  Article. .
• Bhambra, G. (2016). Undoing the epistemic disavowal of the Haitian revolution: a contribution to global social thought. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 37(1), 1-16. doi:10.1080/07256868.2015.1122578
  Article. .

2015

• Ferreira, N. (2015). Child labour and EU law and policy: a regional solution for a global issue. In The EU as a children's rights actor: law, policy and structural dimensions (pp. 259-288). Verlag Barbara Budrich. doi:10.3224/978384740193d
  Chapter. .
• Angelo, A. -M., & Davies, T. (2015). "American business can assist [African] hands”: the Kennedy administration, US corporations, and the Cold War struggle for Africa. Sixties, 8(2), 156-178. doi:10.1080/17541328.2015.1099838
  Article. .
• Bhambra, G. (2015). Whither Europe? Postcolonial versus neocolonial cosmopolitanism. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 18(2), 187-202. doi:10.1080/1369801X.2015.1106964
  Article. .
• Bhambra, G. K. (2015). Black thought matters: Patricia Hill Collins and the long tradition of African American sociology. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38(13), 2315-2321. doi:10.1080/01419870.2015.1058497
  Article. .
• Cowan, J., & Billaud, J. (2015). Between learning and schooling: the politics of human rights monitoring at the Universal Periodic Review. Third World Quarterly, 36(5), 1175-1190. doi:10.1080/01436597.2015.1047202
  Article. .
• Bhambra, G. (2015). Citizens and others: the constitution of citizenship through exclusion. Alternatives, 40(2), 102-114. doi:10.1177/0304375415590911
  Article. .
• Lester, A., & Laidlaw, Z. (2015). Indigenous communities and settler colonialism: land holding, loss and survival in an interconnected world. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi:10.1057/9781137452368
  Edited Book. .
• Lester, A. (2015). 1. Empire and the Place of Panic. In Empires of Panic (pp. 23-34). De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9789888313563-005
  Chapter. .
• Kufakurinani, U., & Bamu, W. (2015). “Resettled and Yet Unsettled?” Land Conflicts and Food (in)security in Insiza North, Zimbabwe, 2005-2013. In Dialoguing Land and Indigenisation in Zimbabwe and Other Developing Countries Emerging Perspectives (pp. pages). University of Zimbabwe Publications.
  Chapter. .

2014

• Bhambra, G. (2014). Postcolonial and decolonial dialogues. Postcolonial Studies, 17(2), 115-121. doi:10.1080/13688790.2014.966414
  Article. .
• Sokhi-Bulley, B., & Bulley, D. (2014). Big Society as big government: Cameron’s governmentality agenda. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 16(3), 452-470. doi:10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00547.x
  Article. .
• Are human rights responsibilities universal? A conceptual framework of responsibility for human rights (2014). In Responsibility for Human Rights (pp. 62-88). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139795418.004
  Chapter. .
• Lester, A., & Dussart, F. (2014). Colonization and the origins of humanitarian governance: protecting aborigines across the nineteenth-century British empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  Book. .
• Bhambra, G. K., Shilliam, R., & Orrells, D. (2014). Contesting Imperial Epistemologies: Introduction. JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY, 27(3), 293-301. doi:10.1111/johs.12059
  Article. .

2013

• Cowan, J. (2013). Before Audit Culture: a Genealogy of International Oversight of Rights. In The Gloss of Harmony: The Politics of Policy Making in Multilateral Organisations (pp. 103-133). Pluto Press.
  Chapter. .
• Lester, A. (2013). Benevolent empire? Protecting indigenous peoples in British Australasia. In Empire calling: administering colonial Australasia and India (pp. 3-23). New Delhi: Cambridge University Press India.
  Chapter. .
• Corble, A., & Wingate Gray, S. (2013). Back to the Future! Re-visioning 21st century public libraries via a journey through time and space. In Sarai Reader 9: Projections (pp. 102-109). Delhi: Sarai. Retrieved from https://sarai.net/sarai-reader-09-projections/
  Chapter.

2012

• Coleman, L. M., & Tucker, K. (2012). Between discipline and dissent: situated resistance and global order. In Situating Global Resistance: Between Discipline and Dissent (pp. 3-16). London and New York: Routledge.
  Chapter. .

2011

• McGregor, J. (2011). Contestations and consequences of deportability: hunger strikes and the political agency of non-citizens. Citizenship Studies, 15(5), 597-611. doi:10.1080/13621025.2011.583791
  Article. .

2009

• Baker, G., & Bartelson, J. (Eds.) (2009). The Future of Political Community. doi:10.4324/9780203882641
  Article. .
• Angelo, A. -M. (2009). The Black Panthers in London, 1967-1972: a diasporic struggle navigates the Black Atlantic. Radical History Review, 2009(103), 17-35. doi:10.1215/01636545-2008-030
  Article. .

2006

• Bhambra, G. (2016). Beginnings: Edward W. Said and questions of nationalism. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 8(1), 1-8. doi:10.1080/13698010500515290
  Article. .

2001

• Cowan, J. (2001). Ambiguities of an emancipatory discourse: the making of a Macedonian minority in Greece. In Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives (pp. 152-176). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  Chapter. .

Unpublished works

• Sokhi-Bulley, B. (n.d.). Counter-Conduct or Resistance? The Disciplining of Dissent in the Riot City of London. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2434043
  Preprint. .
• Odysseos, L. (n.d.). Against archival abjection: Black annotation and critical fabulation as aesthetic-poetic interventions into the violence of the archive. Global Studies Quarterly, pages.
  Article. .