Secularism is a Women’s IssueThe two books we will analyze in this essay, Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui by Juan E. De Castro, and Alan McPherson’s Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet’s Terror State to Justice, are very different in subject matter, discipline, and style. But they both tell the stories of twentieth century Latin American activists of the left who strove for social justice and against dictatorship and authoritarianism. Together, they show the variety of and range of contemporary Latin American studies.
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Two exemplary Twentieth-Century Socialist Latin American lives: José Carlos Mariátegui and Orlando Letelier
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Richard Wright à la conférence de Bandung (1955)
13 janvier, par siawi3Richard Wright est un écrivain noir américain qui a vécu de 1908 à 1960. Il a été communiste pendant une partie de sa vie et s’est constamment engagé contre le racisme et pour le panafricanisme. En 1955, il lit un encart dans un journal qui annonce la première rencontre à Bandung des premiers chefs d’Etat des pays indépendants d’Afrique et d’Asie. Il décide de s’y rendre ; il est un témoin direct et un des journalistes qui a suivi et rendu compte de cet événement considérable.
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La conférence de Bandung (1955), un moment historique de la décolonisation
13 janvier, par siawi3A partir du livre de Richard Wright, « Bandung » aux éditions Syllepse
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‘Striking from the Margins’ Avoids Trying to ‘Fix’ West Asia—or What Is Known As the ‘Middle East’
13 January, by siawi3Several competing entities influence the economic, social and political infrastructure of West Asia. The most important are the countries in the region, specifically those that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council, as well as non-member countries like the United States, who have a vested interest in the maintenance and development of certain programs and countries in the region. The value of Striking from the Margins is its subtle refusal to put forth a heavy-handed, neoliberal proposal on how to “reform” West Asia. Instead, it offers proper context for readers to take a step back, thoughtfully assess the situation and envision new ways to embark on such a difficult development process.
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USA: Know Thy Enemy: New Book Celebrates Chip Berlet’s 40 Years of Tracking Rightwing Movements
13 January, by siawi3A newly-released anthology about the 40-plus year career of right-wing watcher, writer, activist and researcher Chip Berlet.
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CONTESTING FREEDOM AND “WHITE FREEDOM”
11 January, by siawi3“Whose freedom is at stake”? Unquestionably, many thinkers who helped to shape modern ideas of freedom and liberty held racist views and supported exclusionary practices.
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DOSSIER USA : Jan 6, storming of Capitol Ist anniversary
11 January, by siawi3A compilation of articles on the growing extreme right movement and upcoming assault on democracy.
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India: Hindi and Urdu
9 January, by siawi3The politics in the country was not as divisive and toxic in the sixties, when I was a child in Dehradun, as it is now. Urdu, for we siblings, was a secular language and not associated with a community or religion. Our father would write his notes and his shopping lists in Urdu only though he knew English and Hindi quite well. To my eternal regret, I did not make a concerted effort to learn first-hand about his early life, his education and struggles, when he was alive.I never expressed any desire to learn Urdu during his lifetime...
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Taking on Imperialist, Bullying China
9 January, by siawi3Gaurie Dwivedi, an economist by training and a journalist by profession, has undoubtedly written one of the most important books on today’s China, a China which inspires less awe but more fear, a China which is trying to dominate the world hook or by crook, a China which bullies others much the way old-time imperialist powers did.
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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
9 January, by siawi3Over the course of the last century, the number of workers employed as domestic servants, in industry, and in the farm sector has collapsed dramatically. At the same time, ‘professional, managerial, clerical, sales, and service workers’ tripled, growing ‘from one-quarter to three-quarters of total employment.’ In other words, productive jobs have been largely automated away.
But rather than allowing a massive reduction of working hours to free the world’s population to pursue their own projects, pleasures, visions, and ideas, we have seen the ballooning of not even so much of the ‘service’ sector as of the administrative sector.
