Tag: colonialism

Decolonizing Culture

What a leftist Moroccan journal from the 60s can teach us about today’s cultural crises.

Confronting India’s Tribal Problem

On the politics of recognition and coloniality of India’s affirmative action system.

Writing Africans Out Of South African History

Venerating Gandhi as the arbiter of anticolonial struggle obscures the history of Africans.

Why Dr. King Opposed the Atomic Bomb

On the intersections of civil rights, anticolonialism, and nuclear disarmament.

Human Rights: A Fragile Hegemony

Human rights, as popularly conceived, have a troubling genealogy. By Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Is Being Religious “Intellectually Dishonest”?

How the dialogue between believers and nonbelievers is changing—for the better.
by Hans Joas

A Usable Past

How regimes shore up power through national narratives. Of all the factors that have been considered and evaluated as primers for the pervasive nature of authoritarianism in the Middle East, perhaps none are quite so crucial, nor quite so overlooked, as that of the national 

Our Fall Catalog (as Told by A Flowchart)

A quick visual guide to help you navigate our Fall 2014 offerings. You're welcome. A new season means new books, and as we steadily transition into Fall, it's time for SUP to roll out our Fall 2014 catalog, featuring books on everything from intellectual property 

Palestine as Archive

What's happening in Gaza today is far from an isolated event; it's one instance of the Palestinian condition. by SHERENE SEIKALY A man and his young son sit on two cement blocks, surrounded by piles of rubble that were once their home, on the edges 

The Origin Story of the Muslim Brotherhood

Author Beth Baron describes how one of today's most notorious and polarizing organizations first came to be. Q: You describe the Muslim Brotherhood as emerging from a battle “for the bodies and souls of Egypt’s children”—can you elaborate on that? What motivated the formation of