...Debaditya Bhattacharya Abstract While publicly funded institutions in India have provoked the punitive ire of the ruling Hindu right and systematically invited acts of state terror, a new education policy drafted by the same ruling party advocates a wholesale return to a “liberal arts” curriculum...

... the confluence of Ambedkarite and leftist ideologies, “Jai Bhim-Lal Salam” (Long Live Ambedkar-Long Live Revolution) has become the new slogan of contemporary Indian student politics. University walls are flooded with Ambedkar's slogan: “Educate, Agitate, and Organize.” In the name of “social justice...

... of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). South race academic freedom apartheid aesthetic education Works Cited Ashforth Adam . The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth-Century South Africa . Oxford : Clarendon , 1990 . Beckman Bjorn , and Adeoti...

.... It is in this sense that we must understand both democratic pluralism and actually existing late capitalist liberalism, which has nothing to do with democracy or ideological liberalism or liberal politics. Originally published in Spanish in Willy Thayer, El fragmento repetido: Escritos en estado de excepción...

... be disentangled (beyond their tight material connections). The preeminent figure of their civilizationist logic is the white Western liberal human: political, legal, economic, proprietary, educational, and other social technologies center and reinforce this figure. One of the major mechanisms for development...

... colonialism. 17 In turn, Muruwwa's critical project binds liberation from colonial rule to literature: he argues such liberation demands a realist literature that would be accessible to all people. Muruwwa continues to revise his inheritance of the nahda 's project of cultural education when he...

... Collective 2020 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). ethnic studies Third World Liberation Front COLA decolonization Academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small. —Henry Kissinger The recent...

...). intersectionality Fees Must Fall feminist university South Africa Contemporary concerns about South Africa's higher education landscape, as articulated by students, workers, and allies, remind us that the struggles we face in the present carry deep historical legacies in the violent apartheid regime. Thus...

... and evangelical Christian population, animated by discontent, rage, woundedness, or all three, brought Donald Trump to power. 2 Yes, he also drew support from some educated whites, racial minorities, the ultra-rich, the ultra-Zionist, and the alt-right. But his electoral base was and remains white American...

... formations, during the strike and offered a glimpse of a possible abolitionist future. abolition university studies student movements precarious labor higher education In December 2019, graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), went on a wildcat strike. We were...

.... [email protected] © 2022 Christopher Newfield 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). higher education neoliberalism globalization civil rights racial equality racism democracy middle class governance...

... that Black Africans with a certain kind of education and a certain level of property ownership could have the right of political representation. In effect this was a policy of exchanging cultural assimilation for the right to political representation—the logic of liberal trusteeship. But crucially...

...Juan Obarrio Abstract This inaugural issue of Critical Times takes the pulse of the current global political condition, engaging with contexts marked both by the crisis of liberal democratic regimes and by the emergence of new authoritarian political and cultural formations. Some of the essays...

... at the margins of the anticolonial archive. The first is Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (1838–1897), a pan-Islamic modernist and a cornerstone in the treatment of the Muslim world as a geopolitical unity. The second is al-Afghānī’s contemporary, the liberal modernist and jurist Qāsim Amīn (1863–1908), whose social...

... . Alexander Patrick Elliot . “ Education as Liberation: African American Literature and Abolition Pedagogy in the Sunbelt Prison Classroom .” South: A Scholarly Journal 50 , no. 1 ( 2017 ): 9 – 21 . Alexander Peter . “ Rebellion of the Poor: South Africa's Service Delivery Protests...

... as on campuses) into organizations that view people, particularly marginalized folks, as enemy combatants. Recognizing that the problem was and is a structural and historical one, we realized the university was not going to educate us for our liberation. If we needed big answers to the life-and-death struggles...

... of the Third World on women of color. Vergès looks at the feminist and Women's Liberation movements in France in the 1960s and 1970s and asks why, at a time of French consciousness about colonialism brought about by Algerian independence and the social transformations of 1968, these movements chose to ignore...

... Worldist, Salem participated in crucial events of the liberation period, including the resistance in Port Said during the Suez War, and taught in Algeria in the wake of decolonization. Spotlighting her work in institutions such as the Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization, the Afro-Asian Writers...

.... And Fanon himself, born and raised in Martinique, educated and married in Lyon, and employed in Algeria, bespeaks a certain type of cosmopolitanism, one that puts him at odds with a nativist logic of national liberation. Countering the twin logics of pan-Arabism and pan-Africanism, Fanon writes...

... . Care Collective . The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence . London : Verso Books , 2020 . Carmichael Stokely , and Hamilton Charles V. . Black Power: The Politics of Liberation . New York : Vintage Books , 1992 . Cavarero Adriana . Inclinations: A Critique...