Author: camilabassi
Feminism and the Rise of the Far Right: Kavita Krishnan and Sian Norris
Below is a full recording of the opening plenary of All The Rage! 2024, an annual socialist feminist event organised by Workers’ Liberty. Guest speakers: Kavita Krishan (author of “Fearless Freedom”) and Sian Norris (author of “Bodies Under Siege”).
Freaks of nature: on anti-trans viscerality
Within anti-trans discourse that assumes the voice of reason and science, one frequently finds imagery inciting a visceral affect of revulsion, which drives and reinforces a narrative of threat. In this GB News footage below on the case of Lia Thomas, one finds an academic voice of reason and science interpolated with (from GB News) […]
Lessons from the Cape Town Water Crisis
What happens when a city runs out of water? Day Zero was the doomsday of looming climate catastrophe which was almost reached during the Cape Town water crisis of 2015-2020. A holistic geographical perspective places this local crisis in global context, and recognises a physical geography phenomenon of drought amid global warming as also a […]
Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism: critical notes and extracts
I. Critical notes Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism was originally published in 1955. It has since become a foundational essay on the nature of colonialism in postcolonialism. Significantly, until the Soviet Union repression of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Césaire looked to the Soviet Union (and Stalinist socialism) as a future model for society. While Discourse on Colonialism presents as […]
Another Anonymous Geographer on anti-Jewish racism in Geography
On Wednesday 8th May 2024, Anonymous Geographer 2 emerged on the e-list of the critical geography academic forum (Crit-Geog-Forum) to, following Anonymous Geographer, call out anti-Jewish racism in the discipline. Their words (in full below) are, like those of Anonymous Geographer, insightful, measured, and very much worthy of engagement. All too often the accusation of […]
Anonymous Geographer: Racism, crit-geog-forum, and wider critical geography
The below was posted to the e-list of Critical Geography Forum on Thursday 25th April 2024. These words of the Anonymous Geographer deserve amplification and the fullest academic engagement. Avanti. Dear colleagues I feel the need, after months of observing from the sidelines of some of the debates on this forum, by colleagues on social […]
On Pankaj Mishra’s “The Shoah after Gaza”
Pankaj Mishra’s (2024) essay in the London Review of Books, “The Shoah after Gaza”, is essentially a call for ‘ordinary Jews’ to become ‘exceptional Jews’: to learn the correct lesson from the Holocaust, which is to become extraordinary human beings. The problem, for Mishra, is that most Jews, inside Israel and beyond, are ‘ordinary Jews’ […]
