Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by NGUGI Mukoma wa
Mukoma wa Ngugi’s opening remarks at the launch (today) of the 2020 Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival in The Hague.
In January of 2019, I traveled to Ghana to visit slave castles and forts for the book I am currently writing on the relationship between Africans and Black (…)
, by SANYAL Sagar
Prominent writers in postcolonial theory have considerable influence in progressive circles within academia. They address issues of colonialism, racism, and differences in culture and politics between the former colonies and the former colonisers. They have devised new frameworks and categories (…)
, by BHATTACHARJEE Manash Firaq
The Kenyan writer is of the view that the colonial system of knowledge creates a space where we are logically trapped into defining ourselves as ‘other people’.
The Kenyan writer, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, was less in conversation with Githa Hariharan, and more in conversation with the space he (…)
, by CHIBBER Vivek, FARBMAN Jason
OVER THE past few decades postcolonial theory has risen to prominence in the academy, becoming the dominant intellectual current of self-identified radicals. Drawing from poststructural currents, early postcolonial theory emerged from literature told from the point of view of the colonized. What (…)
, by USMANI Adaner
Ours is a time of welcome political ferment, but the long hollowing out of the institutions of the Left has meant that, among radicals, Marxism is far from being considered commonsense
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Introduction
Several years ago in a seminar on social theory packed with left-wing (…)
, by BIRCH Jonah, CHIBBER Vivek
In recent decades, postcolonial theory has largely displaced Marxism as the dominant perspective among intellectuals engaged in the project of critically examining the relationship between the Western and non-Western worlds. Originating in the humanities, postcolonial theory has subse quently (…)
, by BHATT Chetan
Sometime in early 2006, a Powerpoint presentation on ‘reformist’ Islam produced a couple of years earlier by the Strategic Policy Team of the Home Office and Foreign Office was leaked to the New Statesman.[‘Working with the Muslim community: key messages’, Strategic Policy team, Home Office / (…)
, by SAN JUAN Eric
ONE OF THE fundamental discoveries of Marxist historiography is that capitalism as a world system has developed unevenly, with the operations of the “free market” determined by unplanned but (after analysis) “lawful” tendencies of accumulation of surplus value.
With the rise of merchant (…)
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