#Postcolonial

the late falter Benjamin

omgghorpad

Today was the final session of our 'Adventures of the Postcolonial' seminar with Aijaz Ahmad. At the end of what (for me) turned out to be one of the most

wilfred chan

wilfredchan

HK leftists have existed as long as leftists anywhere. We come from a COLONY and carry forward our anti-colonial tradition. This year, with enormous stakes, we've worked in English and

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vogueheroine

Fashion has and continues to empower colonial and postcolonial structures through orientalism and other forms of oppressive methods. A THREAD: *This first caught my attention by a story posted on

Rachel Herrmann

Raherrmann

So I’m on annual leave and not responding to emails, but there’s been a Daily Mail piece that misrepresents my 2016 comments about the @ExeterChiefs’ name. I’d like to clarify

Scott Ferguson

videotroph

I wish someone would hook you up with some good eats while I explain that this folk theory of MMT is incorrect. It is a common mistake to presume MMT

Matthias Goldmann

MattHGoldmann

The #Namibian gvt recently rejected #Germany's offer to pay compensation for the 1904-07 #genocide. The offer was meagre as Germany doesn't think it is legally obliged to pay. In this

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/DECOLONIZINGGENDERThis decolonizing gender event promoted by Billion Dollar brand Lulu Lemon says "resist capitalism."What is decolonizing?Why would I do it to my gender?How do Billion Dollar brands resist capitalism?All this

Sonia Qadir

SoniaQadir_

Pakistani progressives have historically understood India as something to aspire to- as essentially a modern secular democracy, a status that Pakistan failed to achieve (because of is its very raison

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jnchien

It's not lost on me that a lot of the hardcore Trumpist reactionaries in Hong Kong are pretty much the same in social and political outlook as MAGA chuds in

Pratiti #BlackLivesMatter #DalitLivesMatter

PratitiTiyas

What??? Hereditary dancers should mark their own privilege just as Brahmins do? What have they been smoking? Also the classic wielding of English against oppressed caste communities! "You speak English,

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highimpactsex

while it's good that people are calling out jp creators for supporting conspiracy theories and the such in relation to the attempted coup in the usa a while ago, i'd

Scott Ferguson

videotroph

A thread on what #MMT has to say re: small, non-hegemonic or so-called "developing" countries, a vital topic for any truly global & decolonial political economy. @FadhelKaboub has been working

Farwa Sial

farwasial

Lots of debate on Modernisation Theory on twitter. I looked at this in detail for research: a thread on literature which speaks to its Eurocentrism, methodological limitations & stagiest approach

Kevin Gannon misses Grogu

TheTattooedProf

The weekly Chronicle Review newsletter highlighted this excellent essay by Sumana Roy, where they observe "decolonizing your syllabus" is often "a form otf atonement," where the "guilt tax" is paid.

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan

raginits

My PhD advisor used to write "you wouldn't say that to Gayatri Spivak" in the margins of my diss. She was right. And I wouldn't say any of this to

Dónal Hassett

donalhassett1

We’ve seen some heated debate this week but today let’s celebrate all the excellent work that has been and is being done on questions of Ireland, empire and race. Please

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