The current global conjuncture differs radically from the earlier decolonization era.

Evidence

This is radically different from the world of decolonization—what David Scott has called “the Bandung moment”—into which new nations, like Jamaica, emerged. This is a radically new historical moment and sets us radically new questions, radically new political questions. That is all that is entailed in the move from one conjuncture to another. And the task of—as I once put it—“turning your face violently towards things as they really are” is what is required by “thinking conjuncturally.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1198

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to postcolonial theory — the shift from the Bandung/decolonization moment to contemporary globalization changes what political questions are askable, relevant to how the Islamophobia field situates Muslim-majority postcolonial states.