How can Black Marxism as an expression of the Black Radical Tradition help us critically study today’s Balkans? In his book Black Marxism, Cedric Robinson underscores the importance of feudalism and racialized social conventions for the beginnings of capitalism even while reformulating the significance of the Balkan–Eastern Mediterranean space as the periphery’s first geography of […]
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A call to rasanblaj
The Haitian-American feminist anthropologist, artist and academic Gina Athena Ulysse engages in rasanblaj: a unique feminist and decolonial practice rooted in black aesthetics and the Haitian spiritual and historical experience. This volume attempts to broaden access to contemporary black radical thought and art, especially, to Caribbean genealogies. At the core of the volume is the […]
Liberalism and illiberalism: A postcolonial approach
This short text uses examples from US liberal imperialism to illuminate the postcolonial critique of liberalism and its standpoint. First, it thinks of the postcolonial critique as one that sees the liberal script as a constitutive boundary-drawing project. Liberalism universalizes not in opposition to but through its particularizing moves. Second, it claims that the postcolonial […]
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The “Orbanization” of Greece & Mitsotakis’ authoritarianism
The shock of the results of the Greek parliamentary elections on May 21, 2023 is profound. The ruling conservative New Democracy is expected to win an absolute majority of parliamentary seats in the second election on June 25, 2023 due to the changed electoral system they imposed. The course of the conservative party will lead […]
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