A meeting at Penang in autumn 2010 of like-minded intellectuals and activists from the Global South committed to a radical decolonization of knowledge commenced with a screening of the late Howard Zinn’s documentary, We the People. A few years ago, the World Social Forum in Mumbai opened with a screening, before thousands of people, [...]
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*Thesis Nine: The Dissent that is Beyond Dissent
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- *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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