Guest Post by Shikha Dilawri
Recent calls to decolonise universities have engendered thoughtful interrogation of the colonial legacies of these institutions and reflection on how to address their material effects today. Taking its cue from these initiatives – including the recent inquiry into UCL’s role in legitimising eugenics – as part of the effort to encourage practices of decolonising at the LSE, this piece seeks to explore the entangled relationship between the LSE and the eugenics movement during the early 20th century. This examination, which draws in part on archival material from the LSE library, takes as it starting point Beatrice and Sidney Webb, prominent members of the Fabian Society and celebrated founders of the LSE, to illuminate the school’s complicity in advancing an unjust racial hierarchy. In exploring how the Webbs, as well as subsequent figures and initiatives in which they were involved during the early years of…
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