It is nearly an axiom of contemporary thought that we live in a shrinking world, in a world of unprecedented transnational exchanges, the global movement of peoples, flows of goods and ideas, and so on. The world has never seemed smaller, some commentators argue, and clichés about the present situation abound, among them the idea [...]
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*Thesis Two: Postcolonialism has had nothing to say about the imperialism of categories
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Recent Pieces
- *Günter Grass and the anti-Semitism Canard
- *Iran’s Revolution and the Global Politics of Resistance
- *Fast, Counter-Fast, Anti-Fast
- *Ours But To Do and Die: The Culture and Politics of Death in India
- *Journeys of the ‘Black Christ’: Art & Resistance in Apartheid South Africa
- *The Sexuality of a Celibate Life
- *Thesis Nine: The Dissent that is Beyond Dissent
- *Thesis Eight: Postcolonial Thought and Religion in the Public Sphere
- *Thesis Seven: The Geography and Psychogeography of Home
- *Thesis Six: In incommensurability is the promise of more democratic futures
- *Thesis Five: The Moral and Political Imperative of South-South Dialogues
- *Mujhe Tumare Sign Chaiyen: The Act of Writing in Deewaar (1975)
- *Thesis Four – Nonviolence: A Gaping Hole in Postcolonial Thought
- *Thesis Three: Postcolonialism’s critique of the nation-state remains inadequate
- *The Footpath and the Skyscraper: The Pleasures of Deewaar
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