Julian Go

Title

Julian Go

Subject

Sociology, Anti-Colonial

Rights

Image provided by author. Photograph taken by Carasco Photography.

Birthplace

United States of America

Primary Sources

Go, J. (2023). Policing Empires. Oxford University Press.

Go, J. (2023). Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory. The British Journal of Sociology.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1468-4446.12993

Go, J., & Lawson, G. (2020). Response to reviewers–Global Historical Sociology. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 33(6), 914-920.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2020.1838205

Go, J., & Lawson, G. (Eds.). (2017). Global historical sociology. Cambridge University Press.
https://www.cambridge.org/au/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/international-relations-and-international-organisations/global-historical-sociology?format=HB&isbn=9781107166646

Go, Julian. (2017). Postcolonial Thought as Social Theory. In In C. Benezcry, M. Krause & I. Reed (eds.), Social Theory Now. University of Chicago Press. 
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo26383995.html

Go, J. (Ed.). (2016). Postcolonial Sociologies: a reader. Emerald Group Publishing.

Go, J. (2016). Postcolonial thought and social theory. Oxford University Press.

Go, J. (2013) For a Postcolonial Sociology, Theory and Society , 42 (1), 25–55. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23362893

Go, Julian. (2013). Decentring Social Theory. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd..
https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/decentering-social-theory/?k=9781781907269

Go, J. (2011). Patterns of empire: The British and American empires, 1688 to the present. Cambridge University Press.

Go, J. (2011). Sociology’s imperial unconscious: Early American sociology in a global context. In G. Steinmetz (Ed.), Sociology and empire, 93. Duke University Press.

Secondary Sources

Rutazibwa O., U.(2023) After inclusion. Thinking with Julian Go's ‘Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory’, British Journal Sociology. 74, 324–335. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/bjos 

Favell, A. (2023). The (postcolonial) return of grand theory in American sociology: Julian Go on postcolonial thought and social theory. British Journal of Sociology74(3), 302–309. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12990

Gill, J. (2021). Julian Go,‘Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory’. Theory Culture & Society
https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/review-julian-go-postcolonial-thought-and-social-theory

Towns, A. (2020). Gender and the politics of knowledge production: Julian Go and George Lawson, eds, Global Historical Sociology, Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 2017, ISBN 9781107166646 (hbk), 310 pp, ISBN 9781316617694 (pbk), 310 pp. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 33(6), 902–907. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2020.1838201

Extra Resources

Julian Go (2025)  Race, Capital Critique: For a Theory of Racial Capitalism | 3° Sesión Cátedra Libre Immanuel Wallerstein, Lecture and Conversation,  You Tube, Apr 28, Accessed 7 May 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7h NJTn kowk&t=3605s


Social Science is Explanation or Nothing: Melissa Mills, Julian Go, Monika Krauss, Mike Savage and Noorjte Marres. (2022, October 14). London School of Economics and Political Sciences Event. YouTube. Accessed December 20 2022.
https://youtu.be/7BhDkd_60HQ 

Julian Go (Boston): Globalizing Social Theory. (2020, February 27). Bielefeld University. Youtube. Accessed January 30, 2023.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBMIAQM4fo0.

Alvina Hoffmann and Julian Go. (2017, August 10). " Interview – Julian Go." E-International Relations. Accessed Jan 30, 2023.
https://www.e-ir.info/2017/08/10/interview-julian-go/.

Julian Go: Militarizing the Police in the US and Britain: Empire and the Global Color Line, Accessed Jan 30, 2023.
https://cfvod.kaltura.com/p/1660902/sp/166090200/thumbnail/entry_id/1_hagsbore/version/100021/width/770/height/470

Citation

“Julian Go,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/768.

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