In this Theory from the Margins event, we discuss two works (published and forthcoming) by philosopher and semiotician Walter D. Mignolo, one of the world's foremost thinkers on epistemic decolonization, and one of the founders of the modernity/coloniality school of […]
MF CASR Lunch with Guro Warhuus Samuelsen: "Modi Magic": Myth and Myth-making in Contemporary Hindutva Populism Electorally one of the most successful political leaders in the contemporary world, India’s charismatic Prime Minister Narendra Modi nurtures a considerable personal following. While […]
MF CASR Lunch with Silje L. Einarsen: The Mythopolitics of Ancient and Medieval Sanskrit Myths This talk will give an introduction to a new postdoctoral project within the NRC/MF project MYTHOPOL. The project addresses Mythopolitics in South Asia through a study […]
Moumita Sen will present the paper "The 'Demon' of Vanquished Histories: Memory and Myth in the Mahishasur Movement" in panel 01 Cultural Production and Heritage Politics, at the SASNET Online Conference Rethinking the Politics of Memory in South Asia. The conference […]
Silje Lyngar Einarsen will present the paper "Sanskrit Memory Politics" in panel 06 History Writing and the Politics of Memory in South Asia, at the SASNET Online Conference Rethinking the Politics of Memory in South Asia. The conference is hosted […]
Since the 1970s, several important critical interventions have been made in the field of anthropology questioning its disciplinary history of complicity with colonialism. Yet methodologically and theoretically, we still encounter unresolved problems of power and representation which continue to reproduce […]
Velkommen til en panelsamtale om jordbrukspolitikk, den bekymringsverdige utviklingen i verdens største demokrati, og solidaritet og motstand. Med utgangspunkt i de pågående masseprotestene i India inviterer Mythopolitics in South Asia eksperter, aktivister og representanter fra politikken og bøndenes interesseorganisasjoner til […]
In this Theory from the Margins event, we discuss Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance with Nick Estes, Assistant Professor in the American Studies Department at the […]
In this Theory from the Margins event, we discuss a forthcoming work by Lila Abu-Lughod. More details to be announced later. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lila Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University where she […]
DATE: 13 April 2021. TIME: TBA In this Theory from the Margins event, we discuss Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities by Mahmood Mamdani. In this genealogy of political modernity, Mahmood Mamdani argues that the […]
In this Theory from the Margins event, we discuss Selected Writings on Race and Difference, edited by Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than […]
