onoptikonJun 22, 2025
The Post-Political Privilege State: Neo-liberalism, Crisis Management and the Class Logic of Welfare Retraction @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5284276
#PostPolitics #StateTheory #Neoliberalism #CrisisManagement #AlgorithmicGovernance #WorldSystemsTheory #TransnationalCapitalistClass #Hegemony #Biopolitics #Immunity #PostcolonialTheory #Municipalism
The Post-Political Privilege State: Neoliberalism, Crisis Management and the Class Logic of Welfare Retraction

This paper introduces the concept of the "Post-Political Privilege State" (PPPS) to analyze the contemporary transformation of the state's function. I

Robert HeinzeSep 18, 2024

«  Dire que le postcolonial n'est rien d'autre qu'un assaut des particularismes contre l'universel, c'est ignorer que la vraie cible est un universalisme qui n'a plus cours, dont le discours est nostalgie d'une époque où l'on pouvait tranquillement faire de la seule Europe la scène de l'Histoire où se jouerait le drame de l'universel. »

Souleymane Bachir Diagne
#postcolonialtheory

Robert HeinzeSep 18, 2024

« Voilà l'universalisme, qui s'identifie tranquillement à l'exceptionnalisme de ce qui est appelé ici « la civilisation occidentale»: hors de la Bible et des Grecs, dit Levinas, il n'y a que de la danse. »

Souleymane Bachir Diagne about Emmanuel Lévinas
#postcolonialtheory

Show threadJulietJFallMay 7, 2024
A beautiful exhibition at the MEG (Musée Ethnographique de Genève), professionally curated - cleverly contextualising objects and theories, without shying away from truly examining colonial guilt in Switzerland. Not to be missed! I was so touched that they suggested including my comic on Carl-Vogt.
#MEG #postcolonialtheory #history #colonialHistory #switzerland #museum #ethnography #anthropology #geography
Andrew ShieldsMay 6, 2024
Like it or not: A podium discussion on “Postcolonial Theories” at the University of Basel. #111Words #UniversityOfBasel #PostcolonialTheory #FalestinNaili #ErikPetry #HenriMichelYeré #KijanEspahangizi #ChristophKeller https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/05/like-it-or-not-podium-discussion-on.html
Like it or not: A podium discussion on “Postcolonial Theories” at the University of Basel

The podium discussion on "Postcolonial Theories" in the Aula at the University of Basel this evening featured Professor Falestin Naili (Near...

AcababbleJan 30, 2023

Oh wise #AcademicMastodon, I need your help. Compiling a new module and I am looking for recommendations for women social theorists who are NOT white but also NOT American (thinking along the lines of a female Franz Fanon). I have a handful of obvious ideas, but would like to dip into new wells...

#BlackMastodon #BlackInSTEM
#PostcolonialTheory
#SocialTheory
#SocialMovements
#DecolonisingCurriculum

Athira UnniNov 7, 2022

Hello! Proper #introduction on this elephant app.

I'm a PhD candidate at #leedsbeckett uni working on #feminist utopian & #dystopian texts from #southasia & the #caribbean.

For #PhD, I have framed research methodologies bridging #utopianism & #postcolonialtheory to design terms & frameworks. 
Research interests: women's writing, the Anthropocene, memory studies, 20th-century American poetics.

Book of #poetry: "Gaea and Other Poems", working on my 2nd book now.

#academicmastadon #litstudies